String theory is what happens when an intelligent system is starved of sensory input and starts hallucinating. Intelligence needs grounding.
For this reason, intelligence is practically never the bottleneck to solving impactful problems. The bottleneck is iterated contact with reality.
i am actually enjoying avatar seven havens :) there's this post-apocalyptic future vibe that i've always been somewhat moved by in media.
i think its because of the ideas of cataclysm survival, the fragility of humanity, yet still managing to hold on to another chance at life
'I was delighted..about the Nobel Prize, thinking as you did that my bongo playing was at last recognised.
Imagine my chagrin when I realised that there had been some mistake: they cited some marks I made on paper ..and not one word about percussion technique'
-Richard Feynman
quantitative financiers (the good ones) discovered something physicists can't seem to grasp nowadays... how to actually humanly, and freely collaborate in a phoney AI empire.
when will physics catch up?
Prompting ai is the simple act of directing a symphony.
It's important to write the music, not just hear it.
And algebra isn't exactly sheet music, Robert! algebra is the very combinatorical fabric of the smooth manifolds we inhabit 🙂
you should next reinterpret the particle as carrying its own moving frame: replace Galilean changes of frame by Lorentz transformations, allow these local frames to vary from pointwise, and identify how the connection transports them and how curvature obstructs a global frame.
toy mechanics problem: a particle in ambient (x,z)-plane moves in a uniform gravitational field mgz, constrained to z=ax^2. Derive the induced metric and equations of motion, identify the Christoffel term, then show that near x=0 the system becomes a harmonic oscillator.