Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.721

   And I think what happened in a bunch of  these fields is people kind of ground things down   to the primitives. Then they effectively  discovered computational irreducibility,   implicitly discovered it by the fact that  they couldn't make progress. And I think that,   and things like Gödel's theorem, which are  reflections of computational irreducibility,   kind of were the other signs, more direct  signs of that phenomenon. But the end result   was people got to these primitives and  then they couldn't get any fu…

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2. 02 · yt0.704

   But that analysis was the thing that finally   I think got people who were highly  skeptical to throw in the towel and say,   okay, you don't have to pause it, pretend to  think that this Hawking radiation forms with   humongously high energies and then waits a  million years trying to climb out with its   energy decaying lower and lower and lower until  it finally comes out, which feels like nonsense.  So there was this period that was in the '70s,  when this was all being sorted out, that when the   tools that we…

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3. 03 · _intake0.687

   > Carroll's book that there were people who opposed this the supercollider because they felt it would create a black hole oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah oh we could never prove that they were

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4. 04 · yt0.686

   And they were then, they were not standing out as starkly against what you call the zeitgeist, as they would have been, if they had insisted on normal physics. - Yeah, it kind of reminds me of that famous quote attributed to Steven Weinberg. I think it's actually accurate, where he said something along the lines of, "It's not that we take our mathematical theories..." How did he say it? He's basically saying, "We don't take our mathematical theories seriously enough." It's not that we take them too seriously, it's that we don't take them seriously enough, right? So if you apply that to quantum…

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5. 05 · yt0.685

   One of the  things that is an important thing that I kind of   learned long, long, long ago now is just let the  damn chips fall where they'll fall. And turns out,   one of the things that's happened to me is  sometimes these chips fall in places that   very much violate various kinds of prejudices  that I have. And it's just like, I'm more   interested in where the chips actually fall  than in supporting some prejudice that I have. And as it turned out, in the end, what's  happened is, sometimes several years later, &n…

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6. 06 · archive0.685

   WHEN, forty years ago, I first expressed the ideas explained in this book, they found small sympathy, and indeed were often contradicted. Only a few friends, especially Josef Popper the engineer, were actively interested in these thoughts and encouraged the author. When, two years later, Kirchhoff published his well-known and often- quoted dictum, which even to-day is hardly correctly interpreted by the majority of physicists, people liked to think that the author of the present work had misunderstood Kirchhoff. I must decline with thanks this, as it were, prophetical misunderstand ing as not …

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7. 07 · gutenberg0.683

   Such an argument, in my opinion, is fallacious; and of course those who advance it do not put it so shortly or so crudely. But whether valid or not, the argument has been very widely advanced in one form or another; and very many philosophers, perhaps a majority, have held that there is nothing real except minds and their ideas. Such philosophers are called 'idealists'. When they come to explaining matter, they either say, like Berkeley, that matter is really nothing but a collection of ideas, or they say, like Leibniz (1646-1716), that what appears as matter is really a collection of more or …

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8. 08 · gutenberg0.682

   But as, after all, the abstractedness of these speculations is no recommendation, but rather a disadvantage to them, and as this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art, and the avoiding of all unnecessary detail, we have, in the following enquiry, attempted to throw some light upon subjects, from which uncertainty has hitherto deterred the wise, and obscurity the ignorant. Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty! And still more happy, if, reasoning in this easy manner, we …

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9. 09 · yt0.682

   firstly not many people even know of John Bell and then not many people even know of Bell's theorem whereas a lot of people know of bore they know of the Copenhagen interpretation why do you think that is like if we had to dissect this as a case study as well at what point did this interpretation become more prevalent in the industry so much so that people haven't even heard of John Bell and that type of thinking has just been suppressed well it's it's not I mean you're right but the if to understand the suppression you can go back before Bell um so you think here are some people people have h…

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10. 10 · yt0.679

    So um but you know uh uh Plunk ran into some problems. um he he uh had had trouble getting his theoretical predictions to fit with experimental data. Um there was experimental data about a certain kind of a plot, a graph um that showed uh how bright or how intense radiation was coming out of these heated systems um as a function of uh the color or frequency of the radiation coming out of them. uh and there were experiments people had experimentally determined what this looked like and he was trying to explain it theoretically from first principles and he was having a lot of trouble. Um, and to…

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