Editing Russia (section)

=== 2021 ===

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|content=The thing I like least about Geometric Unity is not being able to know what it would unlock if true, any more than Einstein and Bohr understood Lise Meitner, Stan Ulam &amp; Edward Teller’s weaponization of New Physics.

We are talking about UFOs while not worrying about New Physics.
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|content=At this point, the story I am tracking isn’t “Little Green Men”. It is “Officials inexplicably change course on UFO narrative”.

Also, the story about “Technology never before seen.” Would make more sense with “Technology” replaced by “Physics”.
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|content=Do I think Wolfram, Lisi, Kaku, Smolin, Klee Irwin, Sarfatti, Woit/Penrose etc are right or on the doorstep of new physics? No! But It’s also totally irrelevant to the security risk.

It wouldn’t matter to me at all.  I would check in with all of them: the cost is zero. The risk?
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=Any time ANYONE at least 1/2-way viable says something weird or kooky or interesting (Wolfram, Lisi, etc.) the cost of a Department of Energy 1hr phone call is negligible. Almost no one with that background says anything like this. Maybe less than 1 such PhD “lunatic” per year.
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=Imagine in 1900 some “crank” told you about thermonuclear weapons. Would you listen or laugh? Well, they’d be only 5 decades away with no aliens necessary. And powered flight hadn’t happened yet!

That’s how powerful a “new physics” advantage is. We’re behaving like lunatics.
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=The US/Europe seriously diverted attention from doing real theoretical physics almost 40 years ago in 1984 to explore physics inspired mathematics. Did China/Iran/Russia/Israel? I don’t know.

But I can tell you this: no one in government is appropriately focused on new physics.
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=As we saw over &amp; over in the 20th century, any small change in physics can change everything almost overnight. From A-Bombs to Semiconductors.

The handful of PhD level claims are of negligible cost to investigate &amp; dismiss compared to a single fighter jet. 

DOE lost the plot.
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=I have no idea what to make of the change in the UAP narrative. What I can tell you with certainty is that for such an ENORMOUS change in the narrative there is no sane explanation for the DOE not to be talking new physics risks and taking every one of the few claims seriously.
|timestamp=1:59 PM · Apr 22, 2021
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|content=Think about the g-2 muon anomaly. Have you heard as much about that suggesting the possibility of New Physics from high precision (rather than high energy) as you have about the TicTac UAP?

Similarly, how often do you hear about UAP technology rather than physics issues. Right??
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|content=@trevorchodge Oh….I didn’t say that. You did. ;-)
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|content=Dear @michaelshermer,

Thanks for this. Very sober. I myself also don’t find the authenticated videos so far released compelling. But I do find your challenge of “no isolated discontinuous innovation” quite interesting!

Might I propose a friendly debate among friendly skeptics?
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|content=Next challenge: doesn’t your line of reasoning prove that “Renaissance Technologies” is either a fraud or a front? Their Medallion Fund is otherwise a long term unbreached secret, discontinuous from any other know investment fund seemingly thousands of years ahead of competitors.
|timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021
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|content=First of all, I am concerned that the paradigm of being scientifically or technologically “centuries ahead” is all wrong. This came up in a phone call with our buddy @SamHarrisOrg.

Q: How many centuries ahead is 1952-3 from 1900? I’d have guessed “many” (not .5) and been wrong.
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|timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021
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|content=But it’s not that nothing happened in physics. While we were pretending that string theory was working, Witten &amp; Co revolutionized our mathematical framework. Think of it as an enormous amount of unrealized gains. Pent up genius &amp; power looking for its 1st application to the 🌎.
|timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021
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|content=It’s not physics exactly. But Edward Witten w support from a small number of folks rewrote Quantum Field Theory as geometry. If Einstein geometrized gravity, then Witten geometrized Quantum Field theory (everything else).

Now, all that change has so far unlocked exactly nothing.
|timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021
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|content=And that brings us to theoretical physics. Beginning around 1982 , the son of the world’s top employed anti-gravity researcher(?!) of the 1950s turned in what may be the most impressive 15yr output in the history of the subject by my estimation. How can I begin to explain this?
|timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021
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|content=You are, to me, arguing powerfully that certain people can’t exist: Rodney Mullen, Edward Van Halen, Bob Beamon, Dick Fosbury, Hiroji Satoh, Satoshi Nakamoto, etc.

They all exhibited the “a little unlocks a lot” paradigm with Zero-Day exploits that were each decisive.
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|content=Next: there are really two metrics on innovations.

Metric I: How big the incremental jump in difficulty. 

Metric II: How big the jump in what is unlocked.

The great fear is that a small jump measured by 1 leading to an ENORMOUS jump in as measured by II.
|timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021
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|content=Now I’ve had the odd question about Renaissance (front not fraud) for just this reason. But either way, it’s either a counter example to your claims on discontinuous innovation if it is merely a fund or a counter-example to your secrecy claims if it is our secret physics program.
|timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021
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|content=If CCP could today repeat what Witten (&amp; friends) did building off Geometric Quantum Field Thy, the US would have Zero clue what it unlocks. Even by your own incrementalist theory. It might unlock absolutely nothing. Or passage to the stars via additional degrees of freedom. 🤷‍♂️
|timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021
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|content=[Digression: If the US were smarter, we’d do it by setting up a mythic secret $B hedge fund that employs top differential geometers, theoretical physicists &amp; ML experts by a national lab &amp; an off brand university w/ inexplicably strong geometry &amp; physics. But enough crazy talk..]
|timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021
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|content=If I thought like CCP, I’d create a lavish secret theoretical physics program modeled on the Russian Sharashka system. The key would be to get it to look like something else. A boring Tech company or some weird Chinese fund to disguise the reason for the secretive lavish campus.
|timestamp=5:40 PM · Jun 13, 2021
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|content=Now let me show you how I could get discontinuous innovation if I were China or Russia. I don’t know those systems as well so I’ll use the US example.

We know most of the top minds. We pretend that there is a lot of subjectivity about this for social reasons but China wouldn’t.
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|content=If you gave us E Witten, J Simons, I Singer, CN Yang, M Atiyah, D Quillen &amp; G Segal, in a quiet program in 1975, I could argue that they didn’t need much more. In fact you don’t need all 7 but for the sake of argument I can make the case using this. But Witten is the main engine.
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|content=Discontinuous innovation is always unlikely. But never impossible.

We are both skeptics. But this UFO story is weird beyond belief Michael. I can’t think of a single story to fit to these reports I’m hearing about. 

I welcome your thoughts. As always. 

Warm regards, 

Eric
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|content=Which is to say we’re not monitoring. Maybe we think that’s a waste of taxpayer dollars. Maybe we think that a Grisha Perelman of physics is impossible.

How much does a phone call cost if a researcher is wrong vs not bothering if they’re right? Price the Type I &amp; II error. Nuts.
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|content=You don’t have to take a position on me or GU. You can ask Wolfram or Lisi or Barbour or Deutsche or anyone outside the system whether such calls are placed. They are not. No one *in* the system believes in wild discontinuous change from *outside* the system. As per your article.
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|content=One last point. I released such a theory. Could well be wrong.

But I can tell you I should have received a call from DOE. Because calls are cheap and relevant trained PhDs are *very* finite. The US should track every geometer, General Relativist, and Particle Theorist working.
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|content=They were smart. We were smart. They had Spassky, We had Fischer.  They had Shostakovich, we had Van Cliburn. Vysotsky v Dylan. Landau v Feynman.

That was a long time ago now.

Oddly, some things now actually make me miss the Cold War with Soviet Russia:

https://t.co/OiKVU6bbjw
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|content=@JamesAdkinsArt Would love to.
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|content=Очи чёрные as interpreted by Mr Chet Atkins during the Cold War: 

https://t.co/XwPtdbGhli
|timestamp=5:48 AM · Nov 03, 2021
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|content=Art is pivotal. We're in some kind of revolution; accordingly our art should be nothing short of amazing. 
Not a popular view, but we need better, more powerful &amp; more meaningful art, better adapted to its time given where we are. I fear many of our artists are as lost as we are.
|timestamp=6:01 AM · Nov 03, 2021
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|content=Vladimir Vysotsky reaches out to Warren Beaty during the Cold War:

https://t.co/ZmWpInYI05
|timestamp=6:01 AM · Nov 03, 2021
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|content=@EmmaDep @AnnPortered @lexfridman I wasn’t. Just a fan for many years.
|timestamp=6:53 AM · Nov 03, 2021
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|content=@EmmaDep I don’t get why he is not better known in the US. I sometimes listened to his songs when I was trying to learn Russian a million years ago.
|timestamp=6:57 AM · Nov 03, 2021
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|timestamp=5:23 PM · Nov 03, 2021
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