I would expect asking lesswrongers about this is approximately the same as walking into a meetup between CS, AI, and philosophy departments at a university and asking the same thing—there might be answers but they’re gonna involve a lot of wishing there was a real physicist to ask, or perhaps getting lucky if one happens to be attending the AI meetup.
personally I think string theory is a very promising overcomplete representation space and we should scale it up and train it on large hadron collider data to create a superintelligent string theory. we’ll know we succeeded when the new physical theory can tell jokes.
I would expect asking lesswrongers about this is approximately the same as walking into a meetup between CS, AI, and philosophy departments at a university and asking the same thing—there might be answers but they’re gonna involve a lot of wishing there was a real physicist to ask, or perhaps getting lucky if one happens to be attending the AI meetup.
personally I think string theory is a very promising overcomplete representation space and we should scale it up and train it on large hadron collider data to create a superintelligent string theory. we’ll know we succeeded when the new physical theory can tell jokes.
I would expect more physicists on LessWrong than academic philosophers.