String theory etc

“String theory approaches experimental verification.”

“New Breakthrough in Quantum Gravity upends everything.”

“Black holes discovered for the first time inside quantum computer.”

“AI to deliver theory of everything within 18 months say experts.”

“Human Teleportation inches… https://t.co/K4XYHIUwrH

— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) February 26, 2024

Just one more collider, bro. I promise, bro, just one more collider and we’ll find all the particles, bro. Just a bigger collider, bro. Please just one more. One more collider and we’ll figure out dark matter. Bro, c’mon, just €22 billion and we’ll solve physics, I promise, bro

это там в комментариях почти сразу

free of obvious ideology

You Can’t Nudge Human Behavior Into Perfection

But they also result from strong financial incentives: the possibility of salaries, book deals and speaking and consulting fees that range into the millions. Researchers can get those prizes only if they can show “significant” findings. It is no coincidence that behavioral economics, from Dr. Kahneman to today, tends to be pro-business. Science should be not just reproducible, but also free of obvious ideology.

это што значит free of obvious ideology? за такое можно и партбилет на стол хоть бы уточнили free of obvious right-wing ideology, это все-таки Правда NYT, надо следить за собой, товарищи.

ну и дальше там подробно про replication crisis, много забавного, вплоть до Even Dr. Kahneman is affected by the replication crisis. - он ведь целый нобелиат, как можно. и нет ли тут антисемитизма.

behavioral economics my ass

see also Why it pays to break the rules

Beware The Tenured

Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry - еще одна позорная статья в SciAm. это один Dr Philip Goff пишет:

There may be a way forward. I argue that we can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we reject reductionism about consciousness. Most consciousness researchers employ a reductionist view of the universe, where physics is running the show. Thus insofar as there are some future possibilities left open by the arrangements of particles in our brains, they are settled by nothing more than the random chanciness implicit in quantum mechanics.

Some challenges have lately emerged to this reductionist paradigm. The neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell has argued that the free will of conscious organisms plays a role in determining what will happen in the brain, over and above what is settled by the laws of physics.

что это такое random chanciness? хотел сказать красиво? и что же это там over and above the laws of physics хочем знать этот Dr Goff в статье пропагандирует свою новую книжку Why? The Purpose of the Universe: In this pioneering work, Philip Goff argues that it is time to move on from both God and atheism. а вот заголовки отзывов (one star) на его предыдущую книжку Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness:

- Beware The Tenured Bearing Junk Science

- Well written but so deeply flawed it’s “not even wrong”

- Bold assertion with no evidence

а вот наш герой борется с ретроградами:

Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness researchers have signed a letter accusing one of the most popular scientific theories of consciousness – the integrated information theory – of being pseudoscience.

полно ссылок, можно всю жизнь читать. а вот Jerry Coyne подробно разъясняет почему панпсихизм - лженаука: Philip Goff returns with panpsychism: now claims that a non-goddy “conscious Universe” explains the “fine-tuning” of physical constants permitting life, там много забавных комментариев. вспоминается Лысенко и вейсманисты-морганисты...

new idea

A New Idea for How to Assemble Life - исключительно дурацкая статья, пустая и ложно-многозначительная. не зря там Deutsch упомянут в связи с его construction theory. new idea my ass

Why it pays to break the rules

Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings / Francesca Gino is the author of a book called, "Why it pays to break the rules in work and life"

ну там много еще. behavioral research my ass

Francesca Gino (accused of various fraud) is the fifth highest-paid faculty member at Harvard, at just shy of 1/2 million $/year. @ShriramKMurthi

Скучно жить, мой Евгений...

replication

Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring

Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring - это Scott Aaronson по поводу “Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a superconducting quantum processor.”

For those who don’t care to read further, here is my 3-word review:

No. Just No.

а баба яга Max Tegmark против за, но ему там несколько человек популярно объясняют, что это все херня он не прав.

да, тот самый Max Tegmark

про диету

. Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science

. The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat

His upcoming book Natural (April 2020) illuminates the far-reaching harms of believing that natural is synonymous with ‘good,’ showing how this leads to misinformation about health choices as well as justifications for sexism, racism and flawed economic policies. Alan demonstrates that this belief is fundamentally religious, swapping Nature for God and naturalness for holiness. - chartwellspeakers.com

см. также Юнг про здоровый образ жизни

no one actually knows anything

"The message that meat might now be fine for health plays into an already prevalent sentiment that nutrition research is constantly reversing itself and no one actually knows anything," writes @jameshamblin

- @TheAtlantic

отличный пример того, как пишут "научные" журналисты: The average man eats more than his own weight in meat every year. - ну и что? ты это к чему, парень? это много или мало? что это доказывает или показывает?

и, кстати, отсюда, стр. 37: But, as it is often the case, medical opinion was not unanimous…

Gay genes & social construction of gender

'Gay genes': science is on the right track, we're born this way. Let’s deal with it.

это - с одной стороны. но с другой стороны...

The social construction of gender is a notion in feminism and sociology about the operation of gender and gender differences in societies. According to this view, society and culture create gender roles, and these roles are prescribed as ideal or appropriate behavior for a person of that specific sex. - Social construction of gender

не сомневаюсь, что специалисты быстро разъяснят, что противоречия тут никакого нет

Singularly Semitic Scandal

это одна Avital Ronell, знатная феминистка и дерридистка (the Jacques Derrida Professor at the European Graduate School in Switzerland). и профессорка в NYU.


очень смешная статья A Singularly Semitic Scandal: Avital Ronell and the Corruption of Western Academia. про sexual harassment scandal, в центре которого Avital Ronell сейчас находится. там огромное количество ссылок, одна смешней другой. читать не перечитать.

rough few years

Some of the field's rock-solid findings now appear sketchy at best. Entire subfields are viewed with suspicion. Many, perhaps most, studies published are flawed. 

- ‘I Want to Burn Things to the Ground’

somewhere in the beginning they say As you’ve no doubt heard by now, social psychology has had a rough few years. - like about a hundred?

very funny article, especially where it attempts to be even-handed. lots of examples. Alan Sokal mentioned.

Researchers find oddities in high-profile gender studies - same issues, more funny examples.

@charlesmurray

upd 9/20: Journals Retract 6 More Articles by a Controversial Cornell Food Scientist

тайны бытия

еще один Robert H. Nelson: Does God Exist? Some Scientists Think They Have Proof

упоминает Penrose и Max Tegmark, что, в общем, достаточно. см. также Раскрыл ли Дэвид Бирнбаум тайну бытия? и ignore list

старательно себя рекламирует, в google не найти ни одной ссылки на критику.

население довольно интерсивно комментирует: 2,028 reactions. достаточно одного комментария, собственно.

Mark: What a convoluted rambling piece of nonsense.

see also: The New Astrology: How Economists Turned Economics Into A Highly Paid Pseudoscience

Не пошла на лекцию Черниговской

© Evgeniya Korobkova

см. также сериально

Power Poser

Amy Cuddy’s TED talk on power poses has been viewed 37 million times. - Power Poser / When big ideas go bad by Tom Bartlett
прочел внимательно от начала до конца, там много ссылок, в частности - Power Poses Are Dead (см. комментарии)

кроме меня никому дела нет

и правильно

см. также The Betrayal of Judas also by Tom Bartlett

flossing is nonsense

Needless to say, I was taken aback, though this was years before this week’s news that the federal government has removed daily flossing from its official Dietary Guidelines for Americans after admitting to the Associated Press that “the effectiveness of flossing had never been researched”. - Flossing is nonsense – and my laziness is vindicated

Dental Floss May Not Improve Your Health. But What Else Can You Do With It?

. Cutting a cake.
. Hanging a picture.
. Murder.
. Making music.
...

see also The 3 Beauty Benefits of Flossing

Construction theory

Any transformation that is not forbidden by the laws of physics can be achieved given the requisite knowledge. - Life without design by Chiara Marletto

what a phenomenal fatuous piece of junk. I clearly remember this David Deutsch. I even read his The Fabric of Reality. He should be compared with David Birnbaum.

University of Oxford my ass

at least some people see this clearly:

I couldn't agree more, this article is pseudoscience garbage.

...consider a pot of water being heated by a hotplate from underneath: if the hot plate is on low the heat will diffuse up through the water in a disorganized manner; but, at some critical temperature convection rolls will form spontaneously in the water. They form because the increase in energy dissipation wins out over the reduction in entropy induced by their formation.

This is exactly the mechanism driving the formation of life! The existence of life is not mysterious, it's inevitable!

[see Prigogine saying ...life starting out of chaos with the same inevitability as we see a stone falling to the Earth.

nyt on diet

Why You Can’t Lose Weight on a Diet

The problem isn’t willpower. It’s neuroscience. You can’t — and shouldn’t — fight back.

и што теперь? poor bastards should go and kill themselves?

ну и штоб два раза не вставать, nyt решила окончательно порвать с традиционными пуританскими ценностями и выкатила в центре первой полосы крупным шрифтом Should Prostitution Be a Crime? с картинками профессионалок. пока что в одежде.

смелость без границ

British scientists

no really: British scientists believe they have made a huge step forward

The Imperial College scientists started with evidence from 100 mouse brains, 122 samples of human brain, and 102 whole human brains preserved postmortem.

исключительно идиотская статья. даже если сами исследования и представляют интерес. хотя я сомневаюсь.

huge step forward sounds like propaganda to me

truly irrelevant

Yet, as some philosophers of the early 20th century began to point out, physicalism contains a logical flaw. If consciousness is a secondary byproduct of physical laws, and if those laws are causally closed – meaning that everything in the world is explained by them (as physicalists claim) – then consciousness becomes truly irrelevant. - says one Margaret Wertheim

подобные утверждения, да и вообще статьи, в которых встречается непристойное слово qualia и упоминается Max Tegmark, вызывают даже не irritation, нет, првильное слово тут - exasperation.

ну положим consciousness becomes truly irrelevant. дальше что?

где-то мне эта дама уже попадалась, мадам Wertheim. у нее список credentials замечательный: Australian-born science writer and Director of the Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles. She is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne and her latest book is Physics on the Fringe (2011).

Institute for Figuring my ass.

точно помню даже где-то писал про эту ее книжку Physics on the Fringe, но найти в своих записках не могу.

поразительно, что люди находят разницу между физикализмом и редукционизмом. ...физикализм не обязательно связан с редукционизмом, скорее это «способ говорения», принимающий физические объекты за фундаментальные. - пишет одна Н.С. Юлина. а вторит ей Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Hence a physicalist need not be a reductionist in this metaphysical sense.


товарищи учoные.

Meditation Madness

Can We End the Meditation Madness? - exceptionally funny. just a couple of samples:

In a nationally representative eight-year study, adults who reported a lot of stress in their lives were more likely to die, but only if they thought stress was harmful.
...
After spending the past four decades studying mindfulness without meditation, the Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer has identified plenty of other techniques for raising our conscious awareness of the present.

and comments, as always, wonderful. more than 300 said something, mostly - something very profound as one should expect from nyt readers.