Jimmy Carr echoing Peter Thiel with a line that lands hard:
“Minus the screens from any room, we’re still living in the 1970s. Nothing’s happened in physics since 1972. String theory has not got us anywhere.”
But the real shift?
“Take the compute power of AI and point it at physics… everything else in science is stamp collecting. Physics is the real thing.
That gave us every bit of technology we have. What happens when you point AI at that?”
He sees two roads ahead:
a world of plenty with 50× productivity and human flourishing…
or something that goes “another way.”
If AI finally cracks physics in the next decade — what single breakthrough do you hope comes first: limitless energy, gravity control, new materials… or something we haven’t even named yet?
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
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