Theoretical Physics
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Weinstein: Theoretical physics lost free speech protections to Restricted Data laws
“Theoretical physics is the only profession to have lost free speech because of something called restricted data, where I am not allowed to put pen to paper to write down a physics equation if in any way it affects nuclear weapons.”
Weinstein: Susskind, Gross, and Witten halted theoretical physics progress after 1983
“In 1983, physics made sense, in 1984, it did not. It was very stark, and it was like overnight, more or less three people, Leonard Susskind, David Grose, and Edward Whitten, drove the field in a totally different direction, and now the achievement of this has …”
AI Resolved Theoretical Physics Problem That Puzzled Experts for a Year
“AI has become superhuman, at least on certain tasks. And that's what led to these recent papers which maybe we should talk about that resolve a problem that was puzzling physicists for experts in the field for over a year, and they weren't able to resolve it a…”
Rationality is merely the bronze standard in creative fields like advertising
“This is what's weird about working in advertising, by the way, and I think it's probably similar to theoretical physics, and it's probably similar to entrepreneurialism, ok, which is what's unusual about those fields, is that rationality is the bronze standard…”