does carl cut out a lot for anyone else?

like right now

totally silent

oh you're right

lmao

lol

has carl ever spoken to ham sarris

carl's message of bringing everyone into the fold of society is p. powerful

😄

i feel like The Great Courses Plus would make a great sargon sponsor ^_^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-tdb678Ovo

I made some GAN gifs

https://i.giphy.com/media/StoQ4xFxmDxzHf0FRe/giphy.mp4

https://media.giphy.com/media/IcjGM9yQDSfYT1N0Lt/giphy.mp4

https://media.giphy.com/media/WtDaEWIYTLIYGaQuZA/giphy.mp4

I wish I was smart enough to train the AI on my own base images

Hey just curious, but what role represents the server administrators?

You can't even talk about Locke or the history of constitutional government without being a racist. It's so useless.

ARK is still garbage

I have been considering starting a private Syncthing with a library of ebooks and audiobooks. Is anyone else interested in working on this?

lol

I have tons of recent books from Murray, Malice, Mac Donald, and more. Both audio and ebooks. I also have an absolute fuckton of philosophy, history and science books from encyclopedias to popularizations. Is anyone interested in helping me start and curate a private library for Athens?

I'll ask again a few times today over the hours see if there's any interest.

The german watchmaker?

@Coolitic pick up Carroll's newest book

Or catch one of his recent talks

@Coolitic if you do, let me know what you think

He basically argues for a Hugh Everett-based interpretation of QM that there is only the wave function and the schodinger equation which obviates the rules for observation leading to the many world's interpretation

To be fair though, the fundamental approach that String Theory takes isn't unique to string theory.

Adding stuff to the math to make things work is pretty standard. They're just taking it to it's logical end. Can't we derive a coherent model from applying mathematics to the problem wholly.

It's not like string theory is definitionally untestable, it would just require such large energies that it isn't feasible to test, even with fantastical technologies.

I'm personally much much more of a fan of QFT and MWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6FR08VylO4

If people were interested in a private audiobook/ebook library for the Athen's community, I could add his books to it 🙂

But so far, no responses...

Cosmological constant...

Well, theoretical physicists anyway

One of my favorite ideas in all of physics is the Single Electron Universe

@OneTrueGod That's what I was talking about before.

Hugh Everett proposed that we were overly complicating things.

That there is no observation step. There is only entanglement.

https://i.imgur.com/bkZ88HG.png

You ought to think about observation in terms of entanglement rather than classical interaction

You guys familiar with the concept of fields?

Of the QFT sort

So one really cool idea in Carroll's new book is to point out that it is nearly intuitive to understand, in the context of fields, that things close by interact and things far apart do not

And part of this is entanglement

Things that are nearby are more entangled, things far apart are less entangled

But then he asks

To invert our thinking

Instead of entanglement being a function of distance

Instead try to think of distance emerging from how entangled two things are

Now consider that the properties of particles exist in different fields

So you have two electrons entangled

But really, one of their properties is entangled, spin

So when you think about "spooky action at a distance"

it's actually a misnomer

Because the spins of those particles are actually "close"

But other properties of the electrons in other fields are "far"

And not entangled

If you think of a particle existing as excitation across multiple overlayed fields

And the different fields providing for different properties of that particle

Then it is easy to understand how one property of the particles can be close or entangled while others are distant or not entangled

Or easier 😄

One thing Carroll is excited about is that he feels that he and his collegues are on their way to being able to articulate how space and time emerge from field interactions

Their hope is that gravity as a feature emerges out of purely QFT notions

Rather than trying to quantize special relatvity

which seems hopeless at this point

Schrodinger and Einstein both hated QM

Bohrs and friends were like "shhhhh shut uppppp, just make predictions, okay?!"

Gravity

Entanglement

Schrodinger made up the cat-in-box thought experiment as a way to say "Surely you don't believe *this*"

@OneTrueGod That's mostly the Copenhagen interpretation though

@ManAnimal And *that's* just the Hidden Variable Interpretation

I welcome you two watch that Carroll talk as a very recent take on Everett's interpretation and multi-worlds.

It's so *elegant*

sick

It doesn't violate entropy though.

The arrow of time is reserved in MWI

Even conservation of energy is.

yes

Multi-worlds is just taking superposition and entanglement seriously.

It's taking the most verifiable parts of QM at face value

Holistically, even.

That's what time is.

We started off at a minimally maximal state and due to thermodynamics entropy is always rising, and this is what distinguishes the past from the present.

Have you guys heard of The Great Courses?

Sean Carroll actually produced a course on the Arrow of Time.

You can spend 40 hours learning how how entropy is the primary diffference between the past and present.

The Core Theory is completely reversible.

Its state that isn't.

fuck I forgot the term

But it has "information" in it

argh

Or was it "Computational Irreducibility"

States and functions where in you can compute any future state, but you cannot always compute previous states which led to this one.

All you need is the Second Law, and the Big Bang

Those are the only ingredients needed for an arrow of time.

All you need to know about it though was that it was low-entropy.