I agree that Motl has an occasional keen insight, but it is usually and unfortunately buried under a mountain of opinionated nonsense. And I don’t mean his political opinions, whatever they are, which I never pay attention to. Given that there are bloggers out there who are consistently insightful, like Baez, Aaronson, Carroll and others, I find that life is too short to look for nuggets of wisdom in his piles of garbage. Incidentally, I used to like Woit’s writings before, but I find them a bit lower quality lately. Sometimes he sounds like Motl, only more respectful. Anyway, if you like we could discuss the merits of a particular point Motl makes, dissociated from the source of it. Unfortunately, I am not qualified to decide whether vacuum fluctuations in vacuum are “real” enough to eventually produce Boltzmann brains, but I tend to agree that, even if they are, they dissipate too fast in a de Sitter space to produce Boltzmann brains in any quantity.
I agree that Motl has an occasional keen insight, but it is usually and unfortunately buried under a mountain of opinionated nonsense. And I don’t mean his political opinions, whatever they are, which I never pay attention to. Given that there are bloggers out there who are consistently insightful, like Baez, Aaronson, Carroll and others, I find that life is too short to look for nuggets of wisdom in his piles of garbage. Incidentally, I used to like Woit’s writings before, but I find them a bit lower quality lately. Sometimes he sounds like Motl, only more respectful. Anyway, if you like we could discuss the merits of a particular point Motl makes, dissociated from the source of it. Unfortunately, I am not qualified to decide whether vacuum fluctuations in vacuum are “real” enough to eventually produce Boltzmann brains, but I tend to agree that, even if they are, they dissipate too fast in a de Sitter space to produce Boltzmann brains in any quantity.