physics
Fundamental physics: unification, relativity and quantum mechanics, and whether string theory is still the candidate.
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsPhysics breakthroughs always come from new instrumentation. It goes like this: New instruments --> New data --> New theory to explain the data --> Theory enables new tech --> New instruments
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Elon Musk quoted
Founded SpaceX in 2002
Their wordsGrok will be able to make photo-realistic & physics-precise games
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Fei-Fei Li quoted
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
Their wordsBut to do that, a fundamental problem to solve is to understand the geometry and structure and the physics of the space.
↗Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligenceyoutube.com 3rd of 13 in this recording
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO
Our readingThe future of computing is one global, unified compute platform whose only limit is known physics.
Their wordsThe future is one global and unified compute platform, with only known physics as the limiting factor
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Bill McKibben quoted
Writer and climate campaigner
solarenergyAmericaclimate change
Their wordsBut physics is giving us very little time now, and so the next set of elections in this country will be, I think, our last real chance to make the sea change-replacing oil and gas with sun and wind-that is our best hope for limiting warming.
↗The growing rumblebillmckibben.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Peter Woit quoted
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics…
Their wordsThis is complete nonsense, a shame that The Economist has been taken in by it.
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Masud Husain quoted
Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford
Their wordsAnd I think what you've said is within the individual, you can change your subject evaluation of the same effort you're running on the Gobi Desert, right? It's the same effort you've been putting in for miles and miles. And suddenly you have subjectively valued this thing as less effort
↗How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husainyoutube.com 8th of 24 in this recording
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Max Hodak quoted
Co-founder and chief executive of Science
Their wordsI mean it feels like a lot of physics. Like if you apply enough compute to matter, you get this thing that looks like intelligence.
↗From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodakyoutube.com 10th of 18 in this recording
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Isaiah Taylor quoted
Founder and CEO of Valar Atomics
startupsAmericaventure capitalinvesting
Their wordsAnd the type of risk that we are asking investors to take is um, we know the physics works. We know that there's infinite demand and how we go from here to there is technology execution. And guess what? Venture capital in the United States is the best at underwriting tech risk of anywhere in the world.
↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 15th of 18 in this recording
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Jensen Huang quoted
Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA since 1993
Their wordsI think the simple stuff is going to get automated away, but the hard problems, the hard sciences, um physics, chemistry, biology, uh you know, computer science, uh computer engineering, systems thinking, uh you know, all and and particularly the domains that are intersecting, uh those hard problems will never go away.
↗Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com 18th of 20 in this recording
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Peter Woit quoted
Their wordsI see nothing that looks like a significant new idea or any evidence this isn't a dead field.
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Peter Woit quoted
Our readingAI-generated junk papers risk overwhelming the hep-th physics field with worthless content.
Their wordsThe result is something completely worthless, but not obviously distinguishable from many other things on hep-th, which is in serious danger of going from something sad and unhealthy to something completely overwhelmed with crud.
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Noam Brown quoted
Research scientist at OpenAI
Their wordswe are trying to encourage people to not spend all their time just like going through all the mathematical open problems physics problems and um just seeing pushing the models to their limits to see what they can prove or disprove.
↗Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI's Noam Brownyoutube.com 11th of 18 in this recording
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Anil Seth quoted
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience…
Their wordsFifth, for IIT to fit with current successful theories in fundamental physics, a reformulation in terms of continuous fields would be needed.
↗Integrated information theory: the good, the bad and the misunderstood (with 6 co-authors)arxiv.org All 3 from this paper
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsI mean, I think aesthetics is truth. When something is beautiful, it's likely to be correct. I think this is true in mathematics. This is true in physics. This is true in a lot of different domains that when you arrive at something that has the correct aesthetic quality.
↗DHH’s new way of writing codeyoutube.com 5th of 21 in this recording
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Michael Nielsen quoted
Physicist, writer and researcher
Their wordshis expertise seems to be getting in the way. He knows so much, he understands so much, um and then he's not able to let go of these these things.
↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com 1st of 26 in this recording
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Michael Nielsen quoted
Their wordsUm and so, it's not a big leap to realize, "Oh, we have a big problem here." Um and so, you know, that's kind of the that's the forcing function there. It's it's you've realized that your old explanation is not sufficient. You need something new.
↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com 8th of 26 in this recording
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Michael Nielsen quoted
Their wordsAnd so you sort of you've you've pursued very similar ideas. It's been very successful in one case and it's been completely and utterly unsuccessful in the other case. And I think I mean a priori, you can't tell which of these is the thing to do. And you actually need to do both.
↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com 9th of 26 in this recording
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Michael Nielsen quoted
Their wordsPeople will sometimes talk about um you know, a theory of everything as a potential goal for for physics. And and then there's this presumption somehow that physics is done once you get there. And of course, this is this is not true at all if you think about computer science.
↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com 11th of 26 in this recording
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Michael Nielsen quoted
Their wordsand I don't think it's possible for one person to understand everything in depth. Lots of people understand broadly a lot of these ideas but they don't understand sort of everything in in the depth that is actually utilized. That's why there's these, you know, papers with with well over a thousand authors.
↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com 21st of 26 in this recording
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Jensen Huang quoted
Their wordsI don't love the other methods, which is continuous improvement. The problem with continuous improvement, it… First of all, you should engineer something from first principles at the speed, you know, with speed of light thinking. Limit it only by physical limits, and physics limits. And after that, of course you would improve it over time.
↗Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494youtube.com 10th of 23 in this recording
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Naval Ravikant quoted
Co-founder of AngelList
Their wordsHumans are universal explainers. Anything that is possible with the current laws of physics as we know them, a human can model in their own heads. Therefore just by enough digging—enough questioning—we can figure anything out.
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Stephen Wolfram quoted
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research
Their wordsspace is not just a simple continuum. Instead, it's a complicated discrete structure that in fact represents every aspect of our universe-both what we normally think of as space, and everything in it.
↗What Ultimately Is There? Metaphysics and the Ruliadwritings.stephenwolfram.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Stephen Wolfram quoted
Their wordswhat we see is that the Second Law is something that emerges because of us, and our characteristics as observers, and in particular our computational boundedness.
↗What Ultimately Is There? Metaphysics and the Ruliadwritings.stephenwolfram.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Laura Deming quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Until
Their wordsBasically what that gives you is like you can apply a lot of theoretical sort of um a lot of theoretical toolkit used in physics to model parts of this question in ways that are actually useful. And it is just not true that you can use like equations from physics to think usefully about almost any other problem in biology.
↗How Until is Engineering Away Time in Organ Transplants | Laura Demingyoutube.com 8th of 15 in this recording
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Andrej Karpathy quoted
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla
Their wordsIt's about booting up a brain and I think physics uniquely boots up the brain the best.
↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 30th of 30 in this recording
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Naval Ravikant quoted
Their wordsThe best people that I’ve met in almost any field have a physics background. If you don’t have a physics background, don’t cry. I have a failed physics background. You can still get there the other ways, but physics trains you to interact with reality, and it is so unforgiving that it beats all the nice falsities out of you.
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Casey Handmer quoted
Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Their wordsIt absolutely asymmetrically helps China. We're not currently working with China. They don't plan to, but like the physics is very obvious, you know, and synthetic fuels have been around for 100 years.
↗China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmeryoutube.com 3rd of 24 in this recording
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Demis Hassabis quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind
Our readingInformation is the most fundamental unit of the universe, more fundamental than energy or matter.
Their wordsAnd it sort of fits with the way I think about physics in general, which is that I think information is primary, information is the most sort of fundamental unit of the universe, more fundamental than energy and matter.
↗Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475youtube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording
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Demis Hassabis quoted
Their wordsBut it seems like you can understand it through passive observation, which is pretty surprising to me. And again, I think hints at something underlying about the nature of reality in my opinion, beyond just the cool videos that it generates.
↗Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475youtube.com 5th of 20 in this recording