Sabine Hossenfelder

German Physicist. Author of "Lost in Math" & "Existential Physics".

There is no strength in numbers, have no such misconception.

rt's are not endorsements

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

You might kill AI progress by something you are doing, or rather not doing. Nameley, to pay for it.

https://t.co/7FPsvlDdtg

[Dennis Blankshine @Blankshine_IRL]

This👇👇👇🙏😎

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

@orchideric unfortunately we do not inherit knowledge from our parents

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Humans dominate the planet because of their ability to quickly adapt by learning rather than natural selection. The downside is that we quickly become blind to change. The world is changing extremely rapidly at the moment and it will get wilder. Don't get blind to it.

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

@voracious_think actually it isn't

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

@sean_a_mcclure Not sure I understand what you mean by "premature". How long do we need to wait to figure out whether humans are the dominant species on the planet?

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Scientists have come up with a new way to look for alien life by proposing a measure of complexity

https://t.co/Z9PAVbms0m

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

AI progress per dollar of investment shows diminishing returns (as we've all known, right?) This is using METR's estimate of acceleration at Anthropic. That acceleration isn't enough to overcome the diminishing returns. by @sebkrier

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We’re sharing new research demonstrating how AI agents can accelerate the science of stress-testing encryption.

Guided by humans, our models uncovered two major weaknesses in legacy 1024-bit RSA cryptosystems.

Our VP Science @Pushmeet explains more ↓ https://t.co/SqNkBbkih2

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

papers posted to math arXiv per week in 2025-2026

[幽 @lecielestpur]

インスタ見てたら「ジジェクが幼稚園の先生だった場合」が流れてきてマジで神

[Brattani @Bratt_world]

This data was shocking 😳

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

@BewareMacduff I think this the best thumbnail I've ever made

[Marcel @BewareMacduff]

Die Briten haben u.a. neben „Angst“ und „Schadenfreude“ jetzt einen neuen Germanizismus:

DUNKELFLAUTE 😢

[Pushmeet Kohli @pushmeet]

Across our projects @GoogleDeepMind, we are witnessing a genuine phase transition in the pace of scientific discovery. You will see a glimpse of this in our releases in the next few weeks.

[Ashley Montanaro @quantumashley]

Excited to see that the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture has apparently been proved! But depressed to see the amount of completely incorrect commentary on its implications, so here's an attempt to clear things up.

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

A decade old anomaly in particle physics refuses to go away and gets stronger instead.

https://t.co/2PpEiqqsa0

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

If this proof holds, it means that quantum computers are only polynomially faster than classical computers for general problems. Shor's algorithm is an exception, not the rule.

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

This is really cool: a magnetic eddy current demo makes a quartz wristwatch run faster.

[Ben Tackett @BenTackett]

Slow status of fusion startups with dim update about @Helion_Energy “Understood physics is slow. Poorly understood physics is fast right up to the point you understand it”