Join Notes
A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
We are dealing here with a simple change of language for describing the world, but from a conceptual point of view the leap is gigantic.
What Is Time? What Is Space?
Carlo Rovelli
His obsession with secrets is evident in his famous interview question: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
Why Peter Thiel Searches for Reality-Bending 'Secrets'
https://theprofile.substack.com/p/peter-thiel-secrets
The success of ChatGPT is, I think, giving us evidence of a fundamental and important piece of science: it’s suggesting that we can expect there to be major new “laws of language”—and effectively “laws of thought”—out there to discover. In ChatGPT—built as it is as a neural net—those laws are at best implicit. But if we could somehow make the laws explicit, there’s the potential to do the kinds of things ChatGPT does in vastly more direct, efficient—and transparent—ways.
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... And Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram
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