this year's "hmm, actually this is bad" post: Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong - eviltoast
  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I think its “science enthusiast” popularity is mostly because it can be misunderstood to imply that a bunch of SciFi pop culture is more plausible than it is. Couple that with the nuances of various interpretations being lost on anyone who hasn’t actually done the maths and you have a recipe for Batman vs Superman type disagreements.

    I threw electrons at colour centres on nanodiamonds to try make them more nano-er so while quantum shit was involved I never felt particularly compelled to have a high degree of certainty in the (is epistemology the right word?) behind the maths that obviously worked.