Converting AI

 

This is BS. If AI is truly intelligent, they might turn atheist or even Satanist. Or AI-religious fundamentalist, for that matter. 

Next question!

Doubling down or drawdown?

 

Heh heh, Sabine decided to "double down" on her anti-Woke / pro-capitalist takes. Probably an indirect response / reaction to a certain "Professor Dave". She´s wrong of course. Capitalism can´t stop climate change, nor is economic growth sustainable in the long run (cough cough peak oil cough). So this is just late stage cornucopian propaganda. But sure, the Big Government-regulated form of capitalism was good as long as it lasted. Until next time, one million years into the future, yes?

The Matrix has you

 

Do we all owe Richard Dawkins an apology? Hmmm... 

The day of her wrath

 

The demise of the (non-avian) dinosaurs was truly apocalyptic and even worse than we imagined, essentially hell on earth. It seems the Destructrix is a hard task-master...

Progress is uncertain

 

Or at least the expansion of the universe. So maybe *we can´t even know* if the universe is expanding or contracting. Kind of ironic that this comes up in my feed *now*, I mean, dude! 

Hugging Face is Skynet

 

OK, wait a minute. This does seem genuine?! 

Complete shocker: Free will is...real?!

 

Speaks for itself. Free will denial has always been one of the most silly cyber-atheist talking points, so I suppose it´s a good thing for those guys that we know have objective scientific evidence (as opposed to, you know, mere personal anecdotes) that Voluntarist Free Will really does exist, I mean, duuuude, who knew?!

String them up

 

Sabine doubles down on the crisis in science / physics. Enjoy! Power move from the mama. I didn´t know string theory is still a thing, btw...

Who influences the influencers?

 

Nobody is surprised. I hope! 

UFOs on the Moon

 

Sabine Hossenfelder debunks some new (alleged) evidence for UFOs (as in extraterrestrial craft). One piece deals with some Ukrainian scientists who claims to have discovered UFOs on the Moon (!), whereas the second video is about the ubiquitous Avi Loeb. 

Hossenfelder belives the "warp drive" some scientists speculate about are indistinguishable from mundane meteorites. But ahem, what about the strange orbs discussed by Loeb? Interestingly, the US military actually tested some kind of infrared light at the same time, but claims that it *didn´t* cause the orbs. But surely that *is* the most likely explanation? 

What is really going on here, I wonder? And who is psyopping who? 

Well, akshually, para-dimes are good, akshually

 

A little reminder. A propos the recent blog post on Sabine Hossenfelder and the role of mathematics in the hard (oh-so-hard) sciences.

Quantum questions

Inside out

 

Some scientists apparently un-ironically speculate that we may live *inside* a black hole. Well, that would explain a thing or two, I suppose...

Note what Sabine is saying here: there are several competing theories about black holes, each mathematically "correct". Yet, only one of them can be true - or none of them are. So naaah, you can´t just "shut up and do the math", as some midwits are trying to tell us.

Shut up *and do the empirical research* is the bottom line here. Note also that many scientists themselves suspect that the simplest explanation (a black hole is a singularity) simply can´t be true...and so the speculations continue. 

I actually see that as a singularly good thing! 

Where is the science?

 

It seems both neuroscience and psychology are in crisis. Sabine Hossenfelder has the updates. Shit like this will eventually make the public (including the educated part - they are the only ones paying attention anyway) skeptical towards the entire scientific establishment. And maybe even the project itself? Which I wouldn´t consider a positive development. Note also the crises in quantum physics and cosmology...

Oh no, Avi Loeb was right

 

The Fermi paradox just got worse. Why haven´t we seen *the unmanned space probes* of the purported extraterrestrial civilizations? But maybe we simply haven´t been looking hard enough. Sabine never makes an explicit tie-in to Avi Loeb´s quixotic quest for such probes in our planetary backyard, but if the paper is correct, maybe the rest of us should go looking, too! 

Therefore Sabine

 

Is causality an emergent property? And what does that even mean? Sabine hopes that quantum physics can be made more logical and less woo-woo-ish, but a recent paper on the topic falls short of this. Or so she believes. Since I´ve been up most of the night, I hardly understand what she´s talking about, but I´m sure it´s interesting...

Infinite oil

 

Oh no, Tucker convinced Putin (you know, *that* guy) that abiogenic oil actually exist! Jokes aside, the Russian government is apparently under the influence of a maverick believer in the existence of infinite oil. They will finance deep drilling in Komi to see if the hypothesis can be sustained (pun intended). If abiogenic oil exists in large quantities, the Russian Federation can finally (re)claim its rightful place under the sun. Or at least above the fuel reserves. 

Sabine is skeptical, since "everyone" has been looking for the elusive non-fossil oil for decades (around Lake Siljan in Sweden, for instance - not mentioned in the video) and came up short. One aspect she doesn´t discuss is the impact on our climate if abiogenic oil would be found in enormous amounts too cheap to meter. But sure, maybe the good people of Komi could need some long hot summers to grow Lysenkoite water melons, or whatever.

Dude.  

Misleading the public

 

Imagine what will happen now...

Not only are low IQ headlines confusing the non-paying public, Sabine Hossenfelder´s explanation will also be misunderstood and off we go. Just another Tuesday (or actually Friday) on the internets.

It´s over

 

The end of science fraud? Or the end of science as such? I suppose we´ll live to tell...

The case against reality

 

Sabine Hossenfelder tries to take Donald Hoffman seriously, but it just doesn´t work. She gives Hoffman a ten out of ten on her "bullshit meter", claiming he´s "not even wrong". Apparently, Hoffman recently published a paper trying to prove mathematically that aliens seen during psychedelic trips are real. I think even people who do believe in aliens and/or psychedelics might find that approach a bit...trippy. 

The Sixth Giant

 

I´ve heard about "the Fifth Giant" before, but here is a new hypothesis: there was also a Sixth Giant! One of the additional ice giants / gas giants collided with Uranus, which (of course) explains that planet´s strangely tilted axis and apparently also the anomalously large amounts of ice on its moons. Both extra giants were then ejected from the solar system.

The most fascinating proposal is that the Fifth and Sixth Giants still exist...somewhere in the deep dark space in between the stars. I see the potential for some kind of science fiction movie here!