Save Your Virtual Seat: Advances in Physics (6/17)
This conference gathers researchers who pursue these questions in quantum gravity, foundations of quantum mechanics, and constructor theory.
Save Your Virtual Seat: Advances in Physics (6/17)
Our online conference, Advances in Physics, will take place on June 17th.
Register here.
What does it mean to take our best theories in physics seriously? What do they tell us about what the world is really like?
This conference gathers researchers who pursue these questions in quantum gravity, foundations of quantum mechanics, and constructor theory.
Attendees are welcome to ask questions, and those who register are free to come and go as they please.
The entire event will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube.
See you there!
Office Hours
Listen to Fellow Paul Raymond-Robichaud, Fellow Sam Kuypers, Ambassador Brett Hall, and others discuss the nature of infinity.
Taking Children Seriously
Cofounder Aaron Stupple: “When a constraint is imposed upon a child without her understanding, she can’t apply it in novel circumstances, or know when to ignore it, or use it to acquire some new idea. Instead, it becomes fixed in time, unable to improve, a lifeless feature of her world. What’s worse, this constraint will grate against other ideas that she has, but since the parent has resorted to coercion, she is on her own to try to resolve the conflict that this grating represents.”
Physics
Senior Scientist Chiara Marletto: “While a Turing machine can simulate an ecosystem with cells reproducing and undergoing natural selection, it cannot itself be programmed to create a replica of itself. Von Neumann thought that we needed to treat more general programmable machines. Constructors were used to label this more general class of objects that could perform physical transformations (including self-replication), not just computations.”
Read Fellow Charles Bedard’s paper, The ABC of Deutsch-Hayden Descriptors: “...locality holds even in the face of Bell’s theorem. Today, most researchers in quantum foundations are still convinced not only that a local description of quantum systems has not yet been provided, but that it cannot exist. The main goal of this paper is to address this misconception...”
Listen to Senior Scientist Vlatko Vedral discuss black holes and quantum gravity with Fellow Maria Violaris.
Civilization
Watch Advisor David Deutsch discuss the battle of ideas and error-correction with Advisor Peter Boghossian and Reid Nicewonder.
Advisor Daniel Hannan: “Liberty for almost everyone until a blink ago was almost unimaginable. How extraordinarily privileged we are to live in a time and in a country where the government is constrained, where the people don’t just get to make up the rules as they go...”
Economics
Listen to Fellow Ray Scott Percival explain the importance of free entry into the market.
Read Economics, Module 1: Preference Scales, by President Logan Chipkin.
Epistemology
Watch Fellow Carlos De la Guardia’s video, Why Care about Epistemology?
Aesthetics
Listen to Fellow Tom Hyde preview his book about Wonderism: “I’m trying to beautify knowledge and knowledge-creation.”
Philosophy
Ambassador Brett Hall: “Expertise is absolutely real. Someone who knows a lot or almost everything in a particular field, whereas a layperson knows much less. The point is that you ought never give over your critical faculties to an expert. You want to develop an explanation of how the expert error corrects and whether that meets your own standards.”
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