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Having grown weary of mainstream theoretical physics blogs either claiming nothing is wrong, or admitting something is wrong and suggesting some new idea is needed (but gods forbid it comes from some unsanctioned source), I figured I’d try to settle some of mud from these murky depths. What can go wrong?
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Francesca, my brilliant wife, was raised Catholic. She entered my life as my student at a Catholic college for girls. This was my first foray as an adjunct physics instructor after getting my PhD. I was not good at it. Teaching a class full of teenage Catholic girls taught me a great deal about teaching, …
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Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.” That sentence should keep you up tonight. We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not. It is the opposite. Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, …
For my unconquerable soul
Theoretical knickers are presently in a twist about the threat of AI rendering theorists obsolete (or such is the impression I’ve gleaned from article headlines). But, while only vaguely interested in AI, I suspect it’s only really good at extending extant ideas. Does it get curious on occasion, even playful, and try out ideas well …
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