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|content=Here is a challenge for any of my colleagues who think this is a nothingburger: given the craziness of the widely discussed and publicized claims in a field that has not seen a change in the Fundamental models of physics in 50 years (!), who are the 25 most prominent physicists and mathematicians who have discussed the @pmarca claims publicly? Nobel laureates? Fields medalists? | |content=Here is a challenge for any of my colleagues who think this is a [[Nothing Burger|nothingburger]]: given the craziness of the widely discussed and publicized claims in a field that has not seen a change in the Fundamental models of physics in 50 years (!), who are the 25 most prominent physicists and mathematicians who have discussed the @pmarca claims publicly? Nobel laureates? Fields medalists?</br> | ||
Chaired professors worried about the health of science? Top science communicators? PhD level debunkers demanding @pmarca to put up or shut up? | Chaired professors worried about the health of science? Top science communicators? PhD level debunkers demanding @pmarca to put up or shut up? | ||
In a functional world where scientists are not '''precarious''', it would be a *huge* topic of interest, discussion and | In a functional world where scientists are not '''precarious''', it would be a *huge* topic of interest, discussion and [[Academic Freedom]]. Or it would be debunked. That’s it. There are no other options. Just those two. | ||
Please leave your list below with links! 🙏 | Please leave your list below with links! 🙏 | ||
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|content=A very interesting question is why academics almost uniformly make fun of conspiracy theories…when presented by colleagues at least. | |||
Los Alamos, Tuskegee, Human Terrain Systems, etc. all involved conspiracy BY ACADEMICS. Some were good. Some bad. Some ambiguous. | |||
But isn’t it odd that conspiracies are a permanent part of human existence, yet trying to study them or theorize about them results in crippling professional penalties? | |||
I am astonished that I have not heard one single physicist call @pmarca a liar for claiming the Biden Whitehouse revealed that entire public subfields of theoretical physics were taken off-line by the government for security reasons, and disappeared or went dark. | |||
Nor have I heard “We have to look into this!”.</br> | |||
Nor have I heard “Wow! That is super interesting.” Just silence. | |||
But what I have heard is academics finding it laughable that others find this is interesting. | |||
The @pmarca claim about physics is thus one of the most anti-interesting claims I have ever heard. Everyone in physics just seems to intuitively know not to ask about it. | |||
Has anyone seen @michiokaku, @neiltyson, @bgreene etc. commenting on this claim? I haven’t. | |||
They all just know: Don’t go there girlfriend. | |||
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|content=Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz say that when they met White House officials to discuss AI, the officials said they could classify any area of math they think is leading in a bad direction to make it a state secret and "it will end" | |||
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