#scottaaronson — Public Fediverse posts
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Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?"
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718
#HackerNews #ScottAaronson #quantumwarnings #technews #quantumcomputing #sciencecommunication
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🚀💻 Quantum computers won't magically solve all your problems overnight, folks—sorry to burst that #sci-fi bubble! 🤯 Meanwhile, Scott Aaronson's "imminent" claims are as flip-floppy as a politician's promises. 🙃
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9425 #quantumcomputing #reality #check #ScottAaronson #technews #problem #solving #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀💻 Quantum computers won't magically solve all your problems overnight, folks—sorry to burst that #sci-fi bubble! 🤯 Meanwhile, Scott Aaronson's "imminent" claims are as flip-floppy as a politician's promises. 🙃
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9425 #quantumcomputing #reality #check #ScottAaronson #technews #problem #solving #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀💻 Quantum computers won't magically solve all your problems overnight, folks—sorry to burst that #sci-fi bubble! 🤯 Meanwhile, Scott Aaronson's "imminent" claims are as flip-floppy as a politician's promises. 🙃
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9425 #quantumcomputing #reality #check #ScottAaronson #technews #problem #solving #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀💻 Quantum computers won't magically solve all your problems overnight, folks—sorry to burst that #sci-fi bubble! 🤯 Meanwhile, Scott Aaronson's "imminent" claims are as flip-floppy as a politician's promises. 🙃
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9425 #quantumcomputing #reality #check #ScottAaronson #technews #problem #solving #HackerNews #ngated -
Scott Aaronson's blog post takes us on a bizarre journey where quantum computers don’t magically fix problems, and somehow pivots to K12 education #reform 🧙♂️🔮. Meanwhile, the dramatic narrative about a murderous past reads like a rejected Hollywood script 🤦♂️.
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9082 #quantumcomputing #K12education #storytelling #ScottAaronson #bizarrejourney #Hollywoodscript #HackerNews #ngated -
I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8805
#HackerNews #I #speak #at #Harvard #as #it #faces #its #biggest #crisis #since #1636 #Harvard #Crisis #Education #PublicSpeaking #ScottAaronson
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James Damore’s defenders (updated)
(recently saw a post claiming that Damore's firing was an indication of closed minds at Google, so it seemed important to repos this - vy)The Google manifesto is a crackpot political argument combined with basic scientific ignorance, not a scientific argument. The people claiming other
https://www.yodaiken.com/2017/08/16/the-crackpot-google-manifesto/
#academics #business #SoftwareBusiness #damore #GoogleManifesto #ScottAaronson #StuartReges -
#ScottAaronson - What Does #QuantumTheory Mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p72vM6qqRxI
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Computing #Computation #QuantumPhysics #Physics #Planck #PlanckTime #TimeTravel #Relativity #SpecialRelativity #BlackHoles #BlackHole #BeckensteinBound #Theories #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 5
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/05/22/inquiry-into-inquiry-on-initiative-5/Re: Inquiry Into Inquiry • On Initiative 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/07/20/inquiry-into-inquiry-on-initiative-2/Re: Mathstodon • Joeri Sebrechts
• https://mathstodon.xyz/@joeri_s@mstdn.social/110401673746671834JS:
❝That's not how it works. The model lacks agency. It is a machine whose gears are cranked by the user's prompt. It can ask questions, but only when prompted to. It is not doing anything at all when it isn't being prompted.❞Sure, I understand that. The hedge “as it were” is used advisedly for the sake of the argument. (I wrote my own language learner back in the 80s.)
Speaking less metaphorically, the program and its database are always in their respective states and the program has the capacity to act on the database even when not engaged with external prompts.
Is there any reason why the program's “housekeeping” functions should not include one to measure its current state of “uncertainty” (entropy of a distribution) with regard to potential questions — or any reason why it should “hurt to ask”?
As it were …
#Peirce #Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #InquiryIntoInquiry
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For some reason I've been thinking about the deplorable defenses of James Damore from people like #UTexas's #ScottAaronson mean.
https://www.yodaiken.com/2017/08/16/the-crackpot-google-manifesto/
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