Computer scientist Scott Aaronson and mathematician and AI researcher Timothy Nguyen discuss Eric Weinstein's and Stephen Wolfram's recent proposals at a "Theory of Everything".
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00:05 : What Aaronson and Nguyen have in common
01:08 : Aaronson: "I've met Eric Weinstein"
02:16 : Aaronson's review of Wolfram's "New Kind of Science"
05:26 : Bell's inequality and entanglement
09:56 : "Free Will Theorem"
11:08 : quantum randomness, Ethereum, and proof of stake
13:13 : a phone call from Stephen Wolfram
15:28 : Aaronson on the response paper to Eric Weinstein's "Geometric Unity"
16:25 : Brian Keating and experimental tests of Theories of Everything
17:02 : Aaronson on the tragedy of Wolfram
19:21 : quantum cellular automata, Loop Quantum Gravity, string theory, quantum computing
21:31 : Eric Weinstein and Brian Keating's Clubhouse response and Theo Polya's anonymity
23:00 : Aaronson: Accountability and when anonymity does and does not matter
Background Material:
Eric Weinstein's Geometric Unity paper:
https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric_Unity-Draft-April-1st-2021.pdf
Stephen Wolfram's Theory of Everything:
https://www.wolframphysics.org/
Brian Keating on experimental tests of Theories of Everything:
https://youtu.be/AzsZO3_WhDA?t=3330
Scott Aaronson's Book Review of a New Kind of Science:
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0206089
Timothy Nguyen & Theo Polya. A Response to Geometric Unity:
http://files.timothynguyen.org/geometric_unity.pdf
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