This is another call for respectful dialog on the topic. Takers?
A brief word on credentials. I am a 23/24-year “veteran” of the software industry. I have worked on many types of software at Microsoft, and on simulation and optimization at Electronic Arts. I am an information scientist first, and an “armchair” theoretical physicist (with a pet TOE), and a hands-on consciousness researcher.
This is another call for respectful dialog on the topic.
What exactly do you wish to discuss? Your post doesn’t provide much in the way of starting points. Your fondness of assigning non-standard meaning to words (e.g. “AI”) doesn’t help much either.
One day you will see, that it is because the post is relatively complete. It’s not minimal for characters used. It wouldn’t fit in a tweet. But it’s concise, and true. My destroyed karma says nothing about the truth of what I said. It speaks loudly about this community. What does it say?
One day I will awaken under the Bodhi tree, the qi will fill my meridians, Kundalini will pierce my chakras, my self will shatter into the multitude of lotus petals vibrating with the sound of om. And verily I shall behold the Akashic Records and I shall know what was, what is, and what shall be.
But until then I’d better go. I seem to be missing an ox and need to find it...
and an “armchair” theoretical physicist (with a pet TOE)
Publicly admitting this, while brave, results in me and probably others revising the probability of the stuff you post being useful or interesting way down. This is because you don’t understand that in physics it takes a decade or so of dedicated studying to reach the proverbial shoulders of the giants, which is necessary before you can figure out anything new. It’s the same in math, and probably in many other sciences.
If you want to ask interesting questions, let alone contribute non-trivial insights, start by familiarizing yourself with the subject matter, be it physics, cognitive sciences or AI research.
Seconded. Any time I hear someone has a pet TOE, I dramatically revise my opinion downward—it happened with Wolfram, and now it happens to you. Even the highest end physicists that I’m aware of make no such claims, other than vague statements like “I suspect X is more likely to be correct than Y.”
To be fair to Andy, having a “pet TOE” can mean something as simple as feeling one TOE is more “elegant” or whatever. It’s not necessarily the case that they are one of those guys who thinks they’ve single-handedly “solved physics.”
This is another call for respectful dialog on the topic. Takers?
A brief word on credentials. I am a 23/24-year “veteran” of the software industry. I have worked on many types of software at Microsoft, and on simulation and optimization at Electronic Arts. I am an information scientist first, and an “armchair” theoretical physicist (with a pet TOE), and a hands-on consciousness researcher.
Thank you for the civil dialog.
What exactly do you wish to discuss? Your post doesn’t provide much in the way of starting points. Your fondness of assigning non-standard meaning to words (e.g. “AI”) doesn’t help much either.
One day you will see, that it is because the post is relatively complete. It’s not minimal for characters used. It wouldn’t fit in a tweet. But it’s concise, and true. My destroyed karma says nothing about the truth of what I said. It speaks loudly about this community. What does it say?
Ah. One day.
One day I will awaken under the Bodhi tree, the qi will fill my meridians, Kundalini will pierce my chakras, my self will shatter into the multitude of lotus petals vibrating with the sound of om. And verily I shall behold the Akashic Records and I shall know what was, what is, and what shall be.
But until then I’d better go. I seem to be missing an ox and need to find it...
Publicly admitting this, while brave, results in me and probably others revising the probability of the stuff you post being useful or interesting way down. This is because you don’t understand that in physics it takes a decade or so of dedicated studying to reach the proverbial shoulders of the giants, which is necessary before you can figure out anything new. It’s the same in math, and probably in many other sciences.
If you want to ask interesting questions, let alone contribute non-trivial insights, start by familiarizing yourself with the subject matter, be it physics, cognitive sciences or AI research.
Seconded. Any time I hear someone has a pet TOE, I dramatically revise my opinion downward—it happened with Wolfram, and now it happens to you. Even the highest end physicists that I’m aware of make no such claims, other than vague statements like “I suspect X is more likely to be correct than Y.”
To be fair to Andy, having a “pet TOE” can mean something as simple as feeling one TOE is more “elegant” or whatever. It’s not necessarily the case that they are one of those guys who thinks they’ve single-handedly “solved physics.”