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  1. Similarly;

    "Germs, particularly in the form of protists, bacteria, and viruses, are the most common underlying cause of transmissible infectious diseases in human beings."

    #EthanSiegel, 2025

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    Take out the word "underlying" and I absolutely agree. The symptoms of these diseases are definitely being caused by overgrowths of one microbe or another. The question is, what causes that overgrowth?

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  2. "... a wide variety of “theories of everything” that have arisen from non-expert humans prompting large language models (LLMs) with a repeated series of inquiries, where the LLM will agree that the human’s ideas have merit and will fawningly tell the human that they’re truly onto something profound.

    This is not 'vibe science' the way one might be able to 'vibe code' ..."

    #EthanSiegel, 2025

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    No it absolutely is! For exactly the same reasons.

    #MOLE #AI

  3. Ask Ethan: What explains the Fibonacci sequence?

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    "The pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc., is the Fibonacci sequence. It shows up all over nature. But what’s the full explanation behind it?" -- #EthanSiegel

    #theUniverse #theMind #fibonacci

  4. Even with quantum entanglement, there’s no faster-than-light communication

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    "[T]here are fundamental laws for both relativity and quantum mechanics, and even though entangled quantum states do exist and obey arcane rules, no information can ever be exchanged faster-than-light." -- #EthanSiegel

    #theUniverse #quantum #BigThink