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There's no doubt Ilya is highly respected in the field, but not to the same extent as Albert Einstein is in physics.
Maybe with time, but certainly not today.
But you have a good point. Ilya got us so much closer to AGI, but he might not like the results now.
In fact, his arguments against nonlocality were later disproven experimentally in the '80s, as quantum mechanics allowed for much higher fidelity predictions than could be explained by a hidden variable theory [0].
I don't think anyone _likes_ the Copenhagen interpretation per se, it's just the least objectionable choice (if you have to make one at all). Many-worlds sounds cool and all until you realize that it's essentially impossible to verify experimentally, and at that point you're discussing philosophy and what-if more than physics.
Intuition only gets you as far as the accuracy of your mental model. Is it intuitive that the volume enclosed by the unit hypersphere approaches zero [1] as its dimensions go to infinity? Or that photons have momentum, but no mass? Or you can draw higher-dimension Venn diagrams with sectors that have negative area? If these all make intuitive sense to you, I'm jealous that your intuition extends further than mine.
Copenhagen, on the other hand, doesn’t offer a workable model of how and when the wave function collapses, and doesn’t offer any predictions in that way (there are theories of wave function collapse that actually make predictions — some of which have already been falsified by experiment). For that reason Copenhagen isn’t “least objectionable”.
Copenhagen is basically an admission that we have no good intuition for why QM behaves the way it does, and wavefunction collapse is merely a way of justifying existing observations within the framework of QM.
IMO all the discussion about how wavefunction collapse doesn't scale to larger ensembles of particles, or the boundary between QM and Newtonian mechanics being ill-defined is noise -- the bridge between the two is statistical mechanics, where classical mechanics only arises from sufficiently large macrostates such that you can aggregate out any quantum mechanical properties. And QM is generally understood to be a toy model in the same way that Newtonian mechanics is a toy model -- it's useful in the realm where we use it, but when you push beyond the limits of that realm, its deficiencies become apparent.
That's why I don't think the proposed experiments to test many-worlds are particularly meaningful (since AFAIK they all seem to involve performing interference on enormous ensembles on the scale of entire humans) -- it's well beyond the limits of where QM is useful (also, I personally don't think we'll ever be able to operate quantum-mechanically at that scale).
He paid me $4,500 for a bespoke anime girl generator app made to run on calculators. He got knighted by the queen of england for his service to the state. I cant really say what he does but he knew as much about optics and generative ai as anyone at cambridge. He could construct things in adobe thatd terrify you.That statement was accurate maybe 8+ years ago.
Second person is family. Similar story but a full blooded american. Theyre a Quantum time traveller.
Silicon valley celebrities are geniuses in their own right but theyre also socially isolated martyrs that cant function without a whole grape vine feeding them.
SV iconoclasts fight and compete for finances. Govt employees/contractors fight for whatever they think is most right within the boundaries of whatever system theyre placed in.
Both SV and the govt are extractive as all hell for anyone with an iq over 160 but the govt has a lot more experience grooming peopl. No one is special and there is 70 years of AI research in front of you. Make it 71 years. Go unrecognized. Simple as.
What do you think happened after 9/11?
How many ai oppenheimers do you think there really are?
My pov is a twisted one but its simple.
Named individuals are state sanctioned sacrifices.
There is a brutual administration years ahead of the public. They are the sorts to sit back and watch while foreign dictators spin themselves out w last generstions ai model (but w a shiny bs veneer).
Sam altman, sergie brin, elon musk, bill gates, etc# are all just average genius smart.
Theyre just psychopathic sex addled drug addicts with alot of leverage on the law. That said, they arent the law.
Theyre great at seizing power from lay people but they dont know how to foster and hold onto a community of physicists, scientists, doctors, analysts, etc# with access to all the worlds knowledge/information.
For every silicon valley baby genius out there im certain there are atleast 3 more in some naval defense research facility or what have you.