@postdocforever.bsky.social / karanji

Physicist (noneq stat phys), interested in writing, socialism, history, other stuff to distract me from work. he/him. Math isn't real. Planaria dad.

[@postdocforever.bsky.social / karanji @postdocforever]

@freddiedeboer @curaffairs Summary of thread: Any form of capitalism in the global North is incommensurate with non-exploitative relations betn global North and South.

[@postdocforever.bsky.social / karanji @postdocforever]

@TanmayJain5114 @jagannath1111 "life is unfair" is your big logical retort?

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

pronouncing gen ai like forrest gump

[@postdocforever.bsky.social / karanji @postdocforever]

The BBC deciding to have AI Gandhi (!!!) on their panel finally disproves Gandhi's response: it would not be a good idea to give civilisation to these idiots.

[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

Tonight Question Time features an imagined AI panel made up of historical figures who shaped the modern world

Watch the #bbcqt AI special now on @BBCiPlayer and @BBCNews to see what our REAL panel have to say on AI, including how it can blur the lines between reality and fakery

[Mañana @trincherotw]

Me causa mucha gracia la idea de que una institución con dos milenios encima de sentarse a pensar y escribir (entre otras cosas) va a necesitar una IA. El LLM de la Iglesia es la escuela de cuadros del Vaticano pero el ladrón siempre ve a todos de su condición.

[picardie aurora @picardie_aurora]

someone said they were a ‘cloud architect’, for a moment i imagined the most incredible job in the world before i realized they mean like software

[Andrew Gelman et al. @StatModeling]

Physics fraud compared to fraud and junk science in the social and behavioral sciences
https://t.co/tYlhfndcNo

[Akshat @star_stufff]

lol
https://t.co/dMhvScen0p

[🅱️askerville 🇦🇪 @WB_Baskerville]

Excuse me, I think there’s been a mistake, I need to speak with the manager. I was supposed to be part of the in-group the law protects but does not bind, not the out-group it binds but does not protect.

[@postdocforever.bsky.social / karanji @postdocforever]

I'm totally in favour of work on what you like, be stubborn, etc. But if a theory breaks with assumptions that have worked for a century, and is as yet unformed with nothing concrete, it's fringe not because physicists are a closed-minded clique, but because of those reasons.

[@postdocforever.bsky.social / karanji @postdocforever]

I finally watched this and it contains a number of mistakes.

Firstly, let me say what Sabine gets right. When she explains known physics, her explanations are clear, concise and correct.

But even she starts talking about FTL, mistaken, motivated reasoning creeps in... 🧵

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

I am optimistic that we will one day make contact to extraterrestrials because I don't think that the speed of light is a fundamental limit. Here I explain why and I have a brief summary below.

[@postdocforever.bsky.social / karanji @postdocforever]

backwards from. In any case, this is a radical departure from how we generally think of covariance in physics. Which is fine, but it should be clear that we are now giving up *causality* to preserve *locality*. A crazy bargain.