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| | profmattstrassler.com
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| | Today I continue withmy series of postson fields, strings and predictions. During the 1980s, as I discussed in the previous post in this series, string theorists learned that of all the possible string theories that one could imagine, there were only five that were mathematically consistent. What they learned in the first half of the...
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| | My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,...
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| | I've said something like this before, but here's another way to say it. The problem of quantum gravity is one of the most famous problems in physics. You've probably heard someone say that quantum mechanics and general relativity are fundamentally incompatible. Most likely, this was narrated over pictures of a foaming, fluctuating grid of space-time....
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| This piece gives an overview of the alignment problem and makes the case for AI alignment research. It is crafted both to be broadly accessible to th...