The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics

aberzun

I'm new to HN and was initially excited about the various intellectual and technological posts ... but isn't this literally just written by AI? I've read like 5 posts in a row and it's starting to dawn on me that all this might be written by AI. Why tf would you even bother posting slop like that?

sudb

At least not all the author's blog posts seem to be AI-written: https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2023/01/why-most-image-gen-star...

yk

> Senior figures (Smolin, Woit, Hossenfelder, Penrose) Well one of the three is not like the other, three are very accomplished physicists, one is a youtuber who lies about the game to get clicks. (And we know she lies because she used to play the game quite competently.) And sure enough they start talking about interpretations of QM.

CuriouslyC

Physics is so deep in epicycles now, and without observations to force people to sacrifice their numerically accurate dumpster fire on the altar of parsimony, we may never progress.

hypersoar

The author (who is also the submitter; it seems nearly all his submissions are his own blog posts) is not a physicist, so it's hard for me to take seriously his sweeping dismissal of the field. Then I see he links to his own Revolutionary Theory, and it starts to look like outright crankary.

photochemsyn

The main flaw in this write-up, AI or not, is it ignores the Bohr-Einstein debates on QM and Bell’s Inequality. I suspect the article deliberately ignores that debate. If it was AI-generated, I’d guess the prompt included something like ‘support Einstein’s hidden variables theory with an argument that includes ‘ontology’, ‘machine learning’, ‘Copenhagen’ but specifically excludes any mention of Bell’s inequality, EPR, and also do not mention hidden-variables specifically.’