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“Finally solving Physics?” Yikes.
by curiousDog 8y ago
“Finally solving Physics?” Yikes.
- drcode 8y agoWell I think it's clear that the Silicon Valley folks (rightly or wrongly) are getting frustrated by the focus on "incremental innovation" in technology and it sounds like this is one attempt to foster more ambitious innovation.
- andrepd 8y agohttps://xkcd.com/1831/ https://xkcd.com/1831/
- avmich 8y agoAren't there comics which show the opposite situation?
- deepnotderp 8y agoWhile I get the underlying sentiment, it's worth noting that there have been examples of success, e.g. Deepmind with AlphaFold for protein folding with relatively little domain knowledge.
- irq11 8y agoAlphaFold not only depended on a great deal of domain knowledge, it actually used one of the most famous physics-based methods. The only people who think that AlphaGo was made by a bunch of noob AI guys with a neural network are the people who don’t know anything about it.
- deepnotderp 8y agoI said relatively, they certainly had less domain knowledge than the competing teams. I have always been a strong proponent of combining ML and NNs with traditional methods.
- shafyy 8y agoHow can physics be solved?
- ganeshkrishnan 8y agoWe need more VC funding. ;)
- nix0n 8y agoAs Asimov asked it, "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?"[0] [0]https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
- shafyy 8y agoThat's not solving physics. Physics is not a problem, it's a branch of the natural sciences. We can solve physics-related problems, but it's not like if we've solved enough physics-related problems we have solved physics. That's like saying "solve this coffee table".
- nix0n 8y ago> That's like saying "solve this coffee table". If I can set down my mug on the coffee table, I'll consider the coffee table to be solved.
- shafyy 8y agoYou consider the problem of having your mug at a convenient height and distance from your sitting positing to be solved, but not the coffee table itself.
- jczhang 8y agoYeah that is laughable lol
- rajacombinator 8y agoYea when you start with a low IQ premise like this (AGI, etc...) you’re going to get a low IQ result. It would probably be more entertaining for the YC partners to fly themselves to Colorado and watch a couple TED talks. Or they could actually do some cursory reading on these fields and attempt to educate themselves.