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>we will never know because all the low hanging fruits in fundamental areas of Physics have already been picked People said that in the 1800s, and they said it

>we will never know because all the low hanging fruits in fundamental areas of Physics have already been picked People said that in the 1800s, and they said it in Ancient Greece too. > On the computer science end, Scott Aaronson is a candidate for a mini-Feynman. Sorry, but Scott is nothing like Feynman. I wouldn't even call him a nano-Feynman. Mr. Aaronson has knowledge of a lot of fields. He surely knows more than I about many things. But he's not very well rounded, he's far more certain of his rightness with far less reason to be, and he makes some pretty big errors, with undue confidence, on a regular basis. His thinking isn't nearly as integrated, and his writing is nowhere near the same level. He's closer to Sheldon Cooper than he is to Feynman.

harry8 3y ago
> He's closer to Sheldon Cooper than he is to Feynman. Ouch. I don't even know much about Scott Aaronson and yet I felt that one.
RealityVoid 3y ago
Feynman had his wrongs and he had some out there beliefs as well (his opinion on brushing your teeth springs to mind). That did not make him any less brilliant in my book.
- mandmandam 3y ago
  Feynman didn't say you shouldn't brush your teeth, or that he doesn't brush his teeth. He said that brushing your teeth without ever looking at the evidence that brushing actually works is silly. Murray Gell-Mann claimed that he said that, but he seemed to have a chip on his shoulder wrt Feynman; and it looks like a jealousy thing. Feynman was right, too. His point was that people really do follow the herd too much - and he's 10,000% correct. It's good to know why you do things, especially when you do them two or three times a day for your entire life. Also, it's good to get to the root of the issue. People who don't eat industrial grain based diets have better teeth than we do, without every having met a toothbrush in their lives.

harry8 3y ago

> He's closer to Sheldon Cooper than he is to Feynman. Ouch. I don't even know much about Scott Aaronson and yet I felt that one.

RealityVoid 3y ago

Feynman had his wrongs and he had some out there beliefs as well (his opinion on brushing your teeth springs to mind). That did not make him any less brilliant in my book.

mandmandam 3y ago
Feynman didn't say you shouldn't brush your teeth, or that he doesn't brush his teeth. He said that brushing your teeth without ever looking at the evidence that brushing actually works is silly. Murray Gell-Mann claimed that he said that, but he seemed to have a chip on his shoulder wrt Feynman; and it looks like a jealousy thing. Feynman was right, too. His point was that people really do follow the herd too much - and he's 10,000% correct. It's good to know why you do things, especially when you do them two or three times a day for your entire life. Also, it's good to get to the root of the issue. People who don't eat industrial grain based diets have better teeth than we do, without every having met a toothbrush in their lives.