Prof Carrotmill PhD

She / It / wtf. PhD to give more authority to my comments. I’ll say I have a PhD in gender studies and sociology. Call me professor

[Prof Carrotmill PhD @carrotmill]

@Quillette Borderline personality disorder.

We should not be pandering to these people. I work in mental health. (Personality disorders should not be a part of mental health system now as constructed)

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Adam Brown (@A_G_I_Joe) is back!

General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced.

Most of us will never get to fully appreciate its elegance by taking the 20-lecture graduate course Adam taught on it at Stanford.

But in the video below, Adam distills the key idea at its heart so clearly and compellingly that even I could keep up lol.

At the core of general relativity, Einstein is trying to figure out the principle behind a particular coincidence: that the mass that resists acceleration and the mass that gravity pulls on just happen to be exactly the same. Adam then leads us through the path of insight which Einstein called his “happiest thought.”

Then Adam lectures on black holes. First, by showing how even under special relativity you could create a perpetual motion machine if black holes weren't truly black. And then, by explaining why the observations of an infalling observer and a distant bystander to the black hole would be so radically different

Adam leads Blueshift, the team at Google DeepMind cracking science and reasoning.

Which gave us the opportunity to discuss at the very end how close we are to AIs that could rediscover general relativity from scratch. Stay till the close for some philosophy of science.

0:00:00 – The coincidence that led Einstein to general relativity
0:16:42 – Gravity is a consequence of curved spacetime, not a force
0:31:46 – Why black holes prevent unlimited energy extraction
0:47:12 – Black holes are the ultimate power plants
1:13:50 – What falling into a black hole would actually feel like
1:18:51 – The three ways we know black holes are real
1:24:21 – The first time we saw gravity bend light
1:29:33 – How far can AI get without experimental evidence?

Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube/Spotify to watch. Enjoy!

[Michel Lara @VeraCausa9]

The Ship: Coleridge's Dream

A ship without a harbor sails not the expanse of oceans but remains forever in the darkening outer rim of the horizon where dreaming silences are born.

[Prof Carrotmill PhD @carrotmill]

@zeteouk @owenjonesjourno Acclaimed?

[Prof Carrotmill PhD @carrotmill]

@JJKALE2 @Coles Cool story bro. 😎

You really have a few of these interactions where you have brilliant quips, which convert into twitter likes, and makes you feel real.

Utterly weird.

[Prof Carrotmill PhD @carrotmill]

@JJKALE2 Cool story bro.

[Prof Carrotmill PhD @carrotmill]

@AmyCreighton123 I’m so sick of white women trying to get sympathy as if they are victims. White women like you have never faced a day of criticism based on your race yet here you are, playing the victim. Shame

[Prof Carrotmill PhD @carrotmill]

@Kierkegaard___ @Noahpinion If you can read, considering you claim some literature philosophy, you may determine that my profile is facetious.

If you can read

[Prof Carrotmill PhD @carrotmill]

@NabilAlNashar @ABCaustralia Nabil - people like you are making me hate muslims. I used to just argue that islam was incompatible with the modern world. You’re not outcome oriented

[Prof Carrotmill PhD @carrotmill]

@HadiNasrallah In all fairness Hadi - your prophet was a pedophile.

I’m at least consistent. I think all pedos are awful

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

The Green Party has complained about this cartoon of Zack Polanski by the The Times.

They’re deeply unhappy with it. Whatever you do, do not repost!

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

If you ever feel stressed, just remember that in China there is a 50-lane highway that narrows down to 4 lanes

[Prof Carrotmill PhD @carrotmill]

@swrighteconomy @natassiazc @jamesmassola NDIS overnight turned us into the most “disabled” nation on earth. A Gillard vanity project rammed through without scrutiny about who and what we were supporting.

Profound disabilities deserve our support, instead we pathologise bad behaviour.

1in6 boys are not autistic

[Jack Kevorkian @kevorkian82]

this is possibly THE MOST Australian interview ever

[Muse @xmuse_]

This is the most amazing thing you'll see today! 💯

Psalm 50 in Aramaic by Trio Mandili — the language of Jesus. Haunting Miserere (Psalm 51 in Western Bibles).

Grab tissues 🙏🏼

Translation from Aramaic down in the comments.

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Folke Bülow, 1930, Sweden Tourists in #Paris.

[Judo is the best @JudoIsBetter]

What high-level Judo athletes do to develop MONSTER grip strength💪