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Ding ding ding! We got another simulation hypothesis techbro! All who got bingo raise your hands. Everyone else, better luck next time.
I can't tell what this is supposed to mean even viewing it through rose-tinted tech optimism goggles. Embed physics into computation? Bro, that's called "electricity". Embed AI into physics? OK now you've completely lost me.
But seriously what the hedge is he talking about?
It's just some vague buzzwords about using ~~quantum computing~~ (edit: not quantum, based on the follow up video) to ~~embed intelligence into the universe in the most efficient way possible~~ solve unspecified classes of machine learning problems.
E = mc^2 and E = mc^2 + AI
mc^2 = mc^2 + AI
0 = AI
Therefore AI is worthless.
so true bestie
As a physicist whose current specialization is quantum information theory, reading those quotations hurt.
I think this is even worse as it's backwards! "Computation" is not a thing, you can't embed something into it. You can embed computation into physics -- that's what we do, we figured out how to compute stuff in the framework of transistors and electric currents and built a CPU.
Ok, have I been sniffing glue or is computation not the result of physics?