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So, optimizing utility changes over many parallel worlds actually also optimizes wealth itself over time. That’s sort of the message.

Hence, we are more likely to accept a dangerous idea if it aligns with our own experiences and is supported by the people we value.

Martin Bojowald, Once before Time, is one of the most recent proponents of this approach.2

the idea that in quantum field theories, scaling things up or down is like moving about in an additional dimension has a long history.

all information inside evaporating black holes in an AdS universe must eventually leak out and wind up in the emitted Hawking radiation.

These are worlds that will be revealed not by better instruments but by new models and frameworks that allow us to see the familiar world in unfamiliar ways—to transform domains described into domains rigorously quantified and observations informally sensed into those formally understood.

it isn’t nearly enough to have a boundary surface with an immense number of particle-like constituents. Instead, a curved interior emerges only if quantum entanglement interconnects numerous boundary constituents.

to knowledge. He was distrustful of established knowledge and what was written in books. He placed little credit in authorities. He preferred to reconstruct everything by himself, in his head. His method closely resembles that of Einstein, Thurston, and Grothendieck. It is, of course, System 3, the slow and careful dialogue between intuition and