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Martin Bojowald, Once before Time, is one of the most recent proponents of this approach.2
Peter Baksa • The Point of Power
New episode w Adam Brown, a lead of Blueshift at DeepMind & theoretical physicist at Stanford.
Stupefying, terrifying, & absolutely fascinating.
On destroying the light cone with vacuum decay, mining black holes, holographic principle,
& path to LLMs which make E... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.com
Sam Altman asks: why are scaling laws a property of the universe?
Daniel Selsam says intelligence emerges from compression—and the universe’s knowledge is a fractal you can keep mining.
In other words, scaling laws keep working because important concepts are sparse but inexhaustible—and inte... See more
vitrupox.comThese hypotheses suggest that deep principles govern the emergence of problem-solving matter, principles that push our understanding of modern physics and chemistry towards their limits. They mark a radical departure from life as we once knew it.
Chris Kempes • Is Life a Complex Computational Process? | Aeon Essays
The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.
John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
What makes the general theory of relativity so important is not that it can predict planetary motions a shade more accurately than Newton’s theory can, but that it reveals and explains previously unsuspected aspects of reality,