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=== 2014 ===
=== 2014 ===


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|content=Wild Maldacena argument at @ToEmovie: String Theory is validated by the very nuclear theory that displaced it: http://t.co/cloj1uNtGV
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|content=Geeking out on Supersymmetry, string theory &amp; his new book about things unknowable w @MarcusduSautoy in needlessly glamorous circumstances. https://t.co/V8Pmxp6Nl3
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|content=Happy to see "Grand Unification" being discussed. Supersymmetry, StringTheory &amp; "The Theory of Everything" get a lot of press. GUTs less so. https://t.co/vWJmMthg9Q
|timestamp=7:25 AM · Dec 16, 2016
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=== 2017 ===


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|content=3 weeks ago on @RubinReport, I made the point that StringTheory/@peterthiel are 2 topics that attract fake news. Now here's P. Woit's take: https://t.co/X9AsHbwzdZ
|timestamp=11:10 PM · Jan 20, 2017
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|content=Faith in capitalism restored: even @Chilis has soured on progress via String Theory in this sector of the multiverse. https://t.co/BVFIvwql6T
|timestamp=3:40 PM · Sep 21, 2017
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=== 2018 ===
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|content=@nbashaw @juliagalef If I ask are there any examples of Sudanese people having contrarian views on string theory then i get your point. If I ask are there any examples of Africans contributing to academic thought, it falls very differently. This is a bit weird to be discussing with rationalists!
|timestamp=1:27 PM · May 18, 2018
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|content=@KingCrocoduck I appreciate what you say. I think I’ve covered this *exactly* on @bigthink and @edge. Geometric field theory is a related triumph. The geometrization of the quantum is a related triumph. Stringy math is a related Triumph. Yet String theory as a movement was still an abomination.
|timestamp=8:26 PM · Sep 1, 2018
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|content=In a recent tweet, I referred to String Theory as “Post Modern.” It unleashed a flurry of activity from similar looking accounts ridiculing the notion.
 
I wonder if leading String Theorist &amp; head of the @the_IAS @RHDijkgraaf knows that his idea is so foolish as to be laughable... https://t.co/MPURUbEbwI
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=== 2019 ===


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|content=That said, I think she’s much harder to beat as she gains confidence in her ability to stand for science. It’s an impressive act of conscience &amp; bravery to go it alone like this, and I wish the physics community saw it for what it is.  I may disagree at times, but my hat is off.
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|content=We oddly now live in a Hossenfelder era of Theoretical physics. Sabine is almost distinguished by a near total unwillingness/inability to sit quietly through the hype machines in Theoretical physics that feed the demands of lay people, journalists &amp; physicists. But is she right?
|timestamp=1:48 PM · Sep 27, 2019
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|content=My take is that she is usually right. Not only that, many in the community rail against her when *they* know she is making sense.
 
But where she‘s wrong could be very significant. I would love to *try* to defend the role of beauty in physics (tarnished by string theory) from her.
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|content=@mike_usher I don’t fully disagree. Let’s put it this way, the '''arxiv''' probably did more good than harm so I’ve been reluctant to discuss its issues. It is also part of a complex and that complex is the issue. It isn’t right to discuss it in isolation. It is part of an ecosystem.
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|content=This is an excellent question. Think of this as the “Good Will Hunting Problem”.
 
I tried uploading to '''arxiv''' way back when. They told me that my email address wasn’t a current university address and I could only upload with endorsement from a university or its representative.
|timestamp=4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2020
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|content=On this point our detractors are more correct than our supporters: our ambitions at The Portal are nearly delusional.
 
The main goal of The Portal is to “Slip the DISC”. Anywhere institutions (like Universities) set up an intellectual caste system via bottlenecking, we’ll engage.
|timestamp=4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2020
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|content=To your question: can that Bangladeshi Genius kid get on the '''Arxiv''' if she is from some Jute farm in the delta without an endorsement?
 
https://arxiv.org/help/endorseme
 
And why if the '''Arxiv''' is open does it discriminate against the blogs of string theory critics???
 
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=357
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|content=I grant freely that the '''arxiv''' is the absolute best part of the DISC. But it is still suppressing ideas &amp; enforcing a caste system. It is the most progressive part of our regressive system (I was offered a full endorsement exemption from its founder Paul Ginsparg). But DISC it is.
|timestamp=4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2020
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|content=I’m enough of a hypocrite that I reserve rights to use it. But I‘ll be making demands of it too. Peter Woit is a physicist who is treated by the '''arxiv''' as an “internet personality” yet runs the most read physics blog. I demand that they fully explain their history suppressing him.
|timestamp=4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2020
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|content=Thanks for asking that question. Our goal is to save the '''Arxiv''' from being part of the DISC. Its soul is with the rebels. And Paul Ginsparg is oddly an early hero of the revolution despite my issues with the '''Arxiv''' and its administration. 🙏
|timestamp=4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2020
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|timestamp=5:56 PM · Jan 20, 2020
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|content=Melanie, you‘re one of my favorite stable wave collections co-propagating along the base-space of this twisted chiral Spinor bundle we call reality.
 
It seems a crime to waste our time discussing “Many-Worlds” or “String Theory” over the geometric beauty of our existence. Thanks!
|timestamp=5:10 PM · Jan 25, 2020
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|content=The simple through line is this: your leadership was selected for based on an ability not to upset their own and other institutions while those institutions had to lie about their success &amp; inability to grow.
 
This leadership cohort is generation ponzi. That’s their superpower.🙏
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|content=People ask why I’m on about masks. I’m not focused on them. I’ve been trying to tell you about my theory of Embedded Growth Obligations and how our *entire* civilian lead leadership has become deranged by them.
 
Masks just show us they‘re willing to kill, and without blinking.
|timestamp=4:26 PM · Mar 31, 2020
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|content=2008 was about the theory of E.G.O.s. And it looked like this. Sooner or later we‘ll get to serious armed conflict w/ developed nations if we want to sit &amp; wait for that.
 
I guess I have a vague hope that we will wake up earlier when we see Doctors &amp; Nurses in Queens put at risk.
|timestamp=4:26 PM · Mar 31, 2020
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|content=But maybe this is getting boring. I mean, it’s just our governmental &amp; world organization leaders pushing us in front of a train to cover for their failures so that their careers aren’t interrupted with so much as a hiccup. So same old, same old.
 
Frankly, I want off the Titanic.
|timestamp=4:26 PM · Mar 31, 2020
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|content=There is some rule that leaders never pay w/ their careers or their freedom. That didn’t use to be true. We used to jail people, clawback their gains, and promote based on vigor/ability. And we will again. We just have to flush two generations of leaders that changed our rules.
|timestamp=4:26 PM · Mar 31, 2020
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|content=So no, it’s not about masks. It’s not about forest fire management. It’s not about central bank tampering. It’s not about campaign finance. It’s not about H1B. It’s not about String Theory or a reproducibility crisis.
 
It’s about their parent theory: Embedded-Growth-Obligations.
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|content=A) We could be 1/3 of the way through the era of baby boomer presidents by then.
 
B) A news article asking about Ghislaine’s whereabouts could appear.
 
C) String Theory is revealed to be a drunken prank that “got out of control.”
 
D) Post-Einsteinian physics &amp; hacking the cosmos.
|timestamp=5:50 PM · May 3, 2020
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|content=@SquareBearBets Water isn’t 100% safe. Scientists don’t talk like that.
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|content=How to restore faith in science:
 
Seat the tables in our meeting rooms w/ who *didn’t* go along with crowds. This is not that hard.
 
Who didn’t go along w “masks don’t work”?
 
Who didn’t go along w String Theory?
 
Who worries about climate yet doesn’t claim as “Settled science”?
|timestamp=8:04 PM · Jun 18, 2020
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|content=Who supports vaccines but refuses to claim “Vaccines are 100% safe.”?
 
Who refuses to parrot the words of central bankers like “relief, stability, confidence, liquidity, orderly” as they bail out speculators?
 
Who didn’t go along with turning our STEM labor force over to the PRC?
|timestamp=8:04 PM · Jun 18, 2020
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|content=Look at all the obviously insane things we have been doing &amp; look who doesn’t go along with crowds. Because it‘s so clear and there are so few objecting this-is-not-difficult.
 
It’s so easy because there are so few people who actually believe in science. It’s down to a very few.
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|content=Why did this work? Because String Theory attracted top minds from what had traditionally been the cream of the Quantum Field Theory community, and they‘d clearly found a large piece of mathematical structure. What they failed to find was a connection from that to real physics. 🙏
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|content=I don’t think there is a problem with string theory per se.
 
The problem was with *string theorists*. Quite simply, String theory allowed its proponents to put down the work of everyone else by allowing its boosters to claim an imminent solution which never actually ships.
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|content=Further, when ever anyone did something (call it X) that was important but seemingly non stringy or anti-string, the string theorists would publish an all but unreadable paper titled like “X and its Stringy Origin” to claim that *all* good ideas are subsumed by String Theory.
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=== 2021 ===
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