LessWrong classics: “A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam of a falling apple, would invent general relativity by the third frame”
LessWrong classics: “A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam of a falling apple, would invent general relativity by the third frame”
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That Alien Message — LessWrong
As a physicist, this quote got me so mad I wrote an excessively detailed debunking a while back. It's staggeringly wrong.
Kudos for the effortpost. My 5-second simpleton objection went something like
A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam, would generate the world's most beautiful camgirl, like a photoshop that's been photoshopped, and take over OnlyFans to raise money to wedgie rationalists, just don't look too closely at the fingers or teeth
that was shockingly polite
this is fantastic! if you’ve ever got another one of these in you, feel free to tag it NSFW and post it here or on MoreWrite depending on what feels right. I live to see yud get destroyed in slow motion by real expertise
I've more than once been tempted to write Everything the Sequences Get Wrong about Quantum Mechanics, but the challenge is doing so in a way that doesn't just amount to teaching a whole course in quantum mechanics. The short-short version is that it's lazy, superficial takes on top of cult shit — Yud trying to convince the reader that the physics profession is broken and his way is superior.