Fogell

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” - William Shakespeare

[Fogell @noteforlif]

@RetrieverMan313 @DillyHussain88 You don’t even know little about Islam, bitch. I am an atheist, I don’t believe in God, but as much as I know, after Buddhism, Islam is the best religion. Although I was Christian, first know about a religion clearly then make comment on the religion, asshole.

[Fogell @noteforlif]

“Does Big Brother exist?”
“Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party.”
“Does he exist in the same way as I exist?”
“You do not exist,” said O’Brien.

- 1984 by George orwell.

[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!

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Fogell @noteforlif]

Are the boys not enjoying science? How is that even possible? There is only one truly fascinating subject in the world—science."

- Humayun Ahmed

Book name : Newton's Wrong Formula

Chapter 2 : ("Science Teacher Amar Babu").

[Fogell @noteforlif]

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future. — Dune by Frank Herbert

[Fogell @noteforlif]

@BarbBest19 @Saganismm People belive in religion because other people in the religon, I don’t know any smart person believe in these traditional fairy tales god.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

― Albert Einstein

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“It has frequently been noticed that the surest long-term result of brainwashing is a peculiar kind of cynicism—an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything, no matter how well this truth may be established.”

— Hannah Arendt

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."

- Johannes Kepler

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Paradoxes in Physics and Mathematics ✍️

1. Zeno's Paradoxes:
A set of philosophical problems that challenge the concept of motion and continuity. For example, Achilles and the tortoise paradox argues that Achilles can never overtake a tortoise given a head start, as he must first reach the point where the tortoise began.

2. Russell's Paradox:
A contradiction found in naive set theory, where the set of all sets that do not contain themselves leads to a logical inconsistency. This paradox highlights problems in defining a universal set.

3. The Barber Paradox:
A self-referential paradox where a barber shaves all those who do not shave themselves. The question arises: does the barber shave himself? If he does, he shouldn't; if he doesn't, he should.

4. The Liar Paradox:
A statement that declares itself false, such as "This statement is false." If it's true, then it must be false, and vice versa, leading to a contradiction.

5. The Sorites Paradox:
This paradox arises from vague predicates, such as "heap." If removing a single grain of sand from a heap doesn’t stop it from being a heap, how many grains can be removed before it ceases to be a heap?

6. The Monty Hall Problem:
A probability puzzle based on a game show scenario. Given a choice among three doors (with a prize behind one), switching after one non-prize door is revealed increases your chances of winning from 1/3 to 2/3.

7. The Birthday Paradox:
Refers to the surprising probability that in a group of just 23 people, there's about a 50% chance that at least two individuals share the same birthday, challenging intuitive understanding of probability.

8. The Banach-Tarski Paradox:
A theorem in set-theoretic geometry that states a solid ball in 3-dimensional space can be split into a finite number of pieces that can be reassembled into two identical copies of the original ball. This paradox challenges our understanding of volume and measure.

9. The Twin Paradox:
A thought experiment in relativity where one twin travels at a significant fraction of the speed of light while the other remains on Earth. Upon reunion, the traveling twin is younger than the stationary twin, illustrating the effects of time dilation.

10. The Grandfather Paradox:
A time travel paradox where a person travels back in time and inadvertently prevents their grandfather from meeting their grandmother, thereby preventing their own existence. This raises questions about causality and the nature of time.

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

What is Life? Well...

Final version is finally out:

"What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life"

@karina__kofman @blaiseaguera @reedbndr

https://t.co/uYFCucZEti

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

Albert Einstein, in a letter to Max Born during 1920s.

"I am escaping to the quiet of my study whenever I can, but I feel like a beast of burden that has been harnessed to a very heavy cart. The world demands my presence, my signature, my opinion on things I do not care about. They are making a monument out of me while I am still breathing, and the monument is slowly crushing the life out of the man underneath. I miss the days when we were poor and unknown, and the universe belonged to us alone."

[Curious Minds @CuriousMindsHub]

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

[Hribi @Hribson]

Will Smith says his Google-listed $350,000,000 net worth means nothing because he has bought everything he ever wanted and it still could not make him happy

Speedy: “A quick Google search says that your net worth is $350,000,000, is that actually accurate?”

“Will Smith: I don't even know, man. I don't, I don't discuss such things.”

“What what happens is you just realize none of it can make you happy. And you know, once you've bought everything you want and there's literally nothing on Earth else that you want to buy, you know, I just wish that was a gift that everybody could have.”

“Because there's nothing that material can do to satisfy you. It's like drinking salt water, you'll just never get enough, you're just going to make yourself more and more thirsty.”

“That can actually be scary when you realize that no relationship, that no money, that no kids, like there's literally nothing that can make you happy. That happy is an internal, full frontal contact with your Dark Night of the Soul.”

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

“A lot of smart people think they’re smarter than they are and they actually do worse than dumb people.” 😂

“It’s common to be utterly brilliant and think you’re more smarter. Warren and I have been good at avoiding this mistake.”

- Charlie Munger. 2020.

[Fogell @noteforlif]

"One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party."

- unknown

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”

— Charlie Chaplin

[successmovers @successmoverss]

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

— Henry Ford

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Never regret a day in your life. Good days give happiness, bad days give experiences, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

—Professor Richard Feynman