On my side, and to build on top of what you've said here, I think the article misses the point of the fact that anger is a useful and healthy societal tool. The naive disney approach to anger is "you should not be…
I think it's what is missing in the article. Anger incorrectly directed is a bad thing. But the article implies that there is no correct direction to the anger, which makes the article sounds as naive and misdirected as…
> The guy who initially accused me of being creepy all of a sudden understands that there's an entertainment component to how I communicate. You realise I laugh at you and not with you, right? For example, the hilarious…
Responding is fun because your answers are entertaining and make me laugh. The fact that I keep putting a coin to see the little monkey dance does not mean that when the little monkey emits some sound I would take it…
Also, a scientist is interviewed in the documentary (I haven't seen the documentary, but my understanding is that it is the only real expert involved), Prof Katya Rubia, and she recently reacted to the documentary: "My…
I'm still not sure what you imagine this conversation will do. What do you think will happen? You know I think you are ridiculous and pathetic, already from the previous conversation. And you're coming back after months…
I think that if you wanted me to be compassionate, you should have avoided to be so creepy. Put yourself in my shoes, I just feel like I'm been accosted by a drunk who want to both become my best bud and shout at me.…
Too deep? Have you considered seeking help? Our interaction should not be a big deal for balanced people. I had forgotten about it myself and moved on. If you cannot, it shows there is something wrong going on and maybe…
Oh, it took me a while to find out who you were. Are you stalking me now? I did made an impression on you. I'm sorry.
What are you talking about? This is not my argument, this is a different argument. His intervention (which is not even really an argument) is that "physicists chose what to work on and some of them think string theory…
First, it is incorrect to say that "any set of data is consistent with string theory". For example, string theory is death in water if we observe a single Majorana fermion with no partner at a comparable scale. This is…
The argument that I'm making was not at all discussed in the video. Can you point to the exact time in the video this argument is made? It looks like you just took a video with someone defending string theory and simply…
Same as the parallel comment: the situation of string theory is the same as with black holes and relativity. It is not it is not testable, it is that it is not testable yet. The situation is very similar of the…
What are your source to say so? Let's take for example https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02789 It's not even clear where String Theory is categorized in this article. Maybe High Energy Physics? Maybe Condensed Matter? It…
There is no more inertia in the academic sector than in the software developer sector. You have tons of software developers that cling to their preferences for ages. They have their beloved language, or beloved…
I did not ignore Susskind at all. I literally say "for each physics theory, on 100 physicists, you have 5 physicists saying it is a mistake to continue working on it". I mentioned the name of Hossenfelder, but you can…
The goal is indeed to have progress or disseminate that progress. The point of Tao is that people see LLM providing "proofs" and are concluding that this is all that is needed to "have progress or disseminate that…
You said > No, not morons, but people who have built a career on string theory. At this point, even if they regret their decisions, it’s too late to turn back now. This is not presented as "yet another option that may…
I don't think "shared knowledge" means "shared knowledge between mathematicians and lay persons" (there is no much point in that, the same way a smartphone technician knows how a smartphone works deep down to the…
You were the one introducing the argument "they are getting advantages out of it so we should be careful to not take what they say as an impartial view". Same can be told of Hossenfelder (personally, I would say that…
I don't think it's a good argument. String theory is just "one application" of advanced mathematical physics. It's like saying that software developers specialised in ReactJS would lose their career if ReactJS is…
The error with this approach is that every single physics theory gets exactly the same criticisms. You can take any of the theories that Hossenfelder would spend time on instead of the ones she does not like, and you…
You are too entertaining for your own good, you know that? Let me help you more: Oh, no, complianceowll, you totally destroyed me by attacking my lack of capitalization and the huuuuge amount of time I needed to use a…
yes, yes, "no it is you who are rambling; me, I don't care to the point I will continue to post and try to insult you because I have a weak ego", exactly what I propose you to say. Well, done, you are doing great, good…
> (monkey wrench, anyone?) Tell me about it. I played the French translated version, and the pun does not translate at all. "Monkey wrench" was translated as the french equivalent, "clé à molette", which does not…
On my side, and to build on top of what you've said here, I think the article misses the point of the fact that anger is a useful and healthy societal tool. The naive disney approach to anger is "you should not be…
I think it's what is missing in the article. Anger incorrectly directed is a bad thing. But the article implies that there is no correct direction to the anger, which makes the article sounds as naive and misdirected as…
> The guy who initially accused me of being creepy all of a sudden understands that there's an entertainment component to how I communicate. You realise I laugh at you and not with you, right? For example, the hilarious…
Responding is fun because your answers are entertaining and make me laugh. The fact that I keep putting a coin to see the little monkey dance does not mean that when the little monkey emits some sound I would take it…
Also, a scientist is interviewed in the documentary (I haven't seen the documentary, but my understanding is that it is the only real expert involved), Prof Katya Rubia, and she recently reacted to the documentary: "My…
I'm still not sure what you imagine this conversation will do. What do you think will happen? You know I think you are ridiculous and pathetic, already from the previous conversation. And you're coming back after months…
I think that if you wanted me to be compassionate, you should have avoided to be so creepy. Put yourself in my shoes, I just feel like I'm been accosted by a drunk who want to both become my best bud and shout at me.…
Too deep? Have you considered seeking help? Our interaction should not be a big deal for balanced people. I had forgotten about it myself and moved on. If you cannot, it shows there is something wrong going on and maybe…
Oh, it took me a while to find out who you were. Are you stalking me now? I did made an impression on you. I'm sorry.
What are you talking about? This is not my argument, this is a different argument. His intervention (which is not even really an argument) is that "physicists chose what to work on and some of them think string theory…
First, it is incorrect to say that "any set of data is consistent with string theory". For example, string theory is death in water if we observe a single Majorana fermion with no partner at a comparable scale. This is…
The argument that I'm making was not at all discussed in the video. Can you point to the exact time in the video this argument is made? It looks like you just took a video with someone defending string theory and simply…
Same as the parallel comment: the situation of string theory is the same as with black holes and relativity. It is not it is not testable, it is that it is not testable yet. The situation is very similar of the…
What are your source to say so? Let's take for example https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02789 It's not even clear where String Theory is categorized in this article. Maybe High Energy Physics? Maybe Condensed Matter? It…
There is no more inertia in the academic sector than in the software developer sector. You have tons of software developers that cling to their preferences for ages. They have their beloved language, or beloved…
I did not ignore Susskind at all. I literally say "for each physics theory, on 100 physicists, you have 5 physicists saying it is a mistake to continue working on it". I mentioned the name of Hossenfelder, but you can…
The goal is indeed to have progress or disseminate that progress. The point of Tao is that people see LLM providing "proofs" and are concluding that this is all that is needed to "have progress or disseminate that…
You said > No, not morons, but people who have built a career on string theory. At this point, even if they regret their decisions, it’s too late to turn back now. This is not presented as "yet another option that may…
I don't think "shared knowledge" means "shared knowledge between mathematicians and lay persons" (there is no much point in that, the same way a smartphone technician knows how a smartphone works deep down to the…
You were the one introducing the argument "they are getting advantages out of it so we should be careful to not take what they say as an impartial view". Same can be told of Hossenfelder (personally, I would say that…
I don't think it's a good argument. String theory is just "one application" of advanced mathematical physics. It's like saying that software developers specialised in ReactJS would lose their career if ReactJS is…
The error with this approach is that every single physics theory gets exactly the same criticisms. You can take any of the theories that Hossenfelder would spend time on instead of the ones she does not like, and you…
You are too entertaining for your own good, you know that? Let me help you more: Oh, no, complianceowll, you totally destroyed me by attacking my lack of capitalization and the huuuuge amount of time I needed to use a…
yes, yes, "no it is you who are rambling; me, I don't care to the point I will continue to post and try to insult you because I have a weak ego", exactly what I propose you to say. Well, done, you are doing great, good…
> (monkey wrench, anyone?) Tell me about it. I played the French translated version, and the pun does not translate at all. "Monkey wrench" was translated as the french equivalent, "clé à molette", which does not…