Letter from Reykjavik: Genomics, Chess, Hyperscaling genAI, and Quantum Black Holes — Manifold #67
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Letter from Reykjavik: Genomics, Chess, Hyperscaling genAI, and Quantum Black Holes — Manifold #67
This is a short episode recorded at the end of a trip to Caltech (LA), Frankfurt, and Reykjavik.
Black hole information and replica wormholes at Caltech (talk slides):
https://stevehsu.substack.com/p/black-hole-information-and-replica
00:00 Intro: summer in Iceland
02:04 deCODE genetics
05:52 Chess: Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik
11:56 Hyperscaling genAI
23:11 Synthetic data and Hyperscaling
24:26 Is the Transformer architecture enough for AGI?
29:45 Quantum black holes
Transcript and Audio-only version:
I meant my comment below as a response to the Deus Ex Machina podcast Steve did.
Amazing talk, wow. One question I will put to the ether. If all our best people do hard sciences early in they life and wait till later to figure out they humanities and social science, who's gonna write the humanities and social science books that the hard scientists depend upon later for they knowledge? We not gonna have a Jonathan Franzen or Ian McEwan (humanities) or a Richard Posner or Franklin Zimring (social science, law), as just a few examples, if they all devote they early education to science. To get historical, we not gonna have a Shakespeare or J.S. Mill.