Justin Aptaker

I created a #TwitterList of accounts that work to counter the trend of #polarization and to promote #listening, #CivilDiscourse & #Civicmindedness. I'll add & remove accounts as needed. twitter.com/i/lists/127806… #Democracy #activelistening #NonViolentCommunication

Danish physicists make monumental quantum mechanics discovery. thebrighterside.news/discoveries/da… #quantumphysics #quantumcomputing #Physics

When it became more and more obvious that computation is built into the laws of physics at a fundamental level, a lot of people immediately jumped to the conclusion, oh, well, the reason that mathematics is useful in physical sciences is that the world is a computer, and we are just programs running in that computer, or something like that, or we are just a simulation running in a computer. Now, it seems to me that that misses the whole point of the blessing of the universality of computation for physics, because it requires a notion of what is or isn't computable that is outside the physical world, so that it was set by God or something to be a certain set, and that's why our universe only instantiates that set of mathematical relationships. Well, then that doesn't solve the problem. You may as well have said that God set up just our universe with those relationships... Yes, removes the middleman. So I think the real, the important lesson of the universality of computation, as revealed by quantum computers to be part of physics, is that computers can be built, universal computers, can be built within the universe. That is really the amazing thing, because however the universe was, you could imagine some kind of super computer with unknown mathematics that simulated it, but the amazing thing about our universe is that you can make an object, such a computer that can simulate any physical process, that's what universality is, and this object, the set of all its possible motions, that is the set of all possible programs that could be programmed into it, is in one-one correspondence with the set of all possible motions of anything. And that is telling us something about the universe from the inside. It's telling us something about what laws of nature actually are. @DavidDeutschOxf

@_aphantasia This is life changing. I've been trying visual meditations ("active imagination") to engage with my subconscious & work towards Jungian "individuation," but now I "see" why this hasn't been working for me. Blackness. That's all I get. I never imagined it was different for others.

Think of a horse 🐴 No, really. Close your eyes and think of a #horse. Which image best describes your #experience? #Imagine #NoHorse #Aphantasia #AphantasiaTest #Extreme #Imagination #BlindMind #AphantasiaLife #MindsEye

"This is completely new [. . .] consequences probably far-reaching. [. . .] Tells you much, much more about interactions [for which it is], in most respects, the most urgent goal of today’s #particle accelerator experiments to understand." scientificamerican.com/article/unbeli… #Physics

AI learns to write computer code in ‘stunning’ advance: DeepMind’s new AlphaCode outperforms many human programmers in tricky software challenges, representing a major step beyond the previous benchmark set by OpenAI's "Codex." science.org/content/articl… #nocode #lowcode #AI

Ok, @monasobhaniphd , you've got my attention: noetic.org/blog/the-untru… @IONSonline #cognitive #bias #neuroscience #philosophy #Spiritual

A Google engineer who is also a Christian priest believes one of Google's language models is sentient. Google has put him on leave. He has published his conversations with the #AI. It is... fascinating, to say the very least. cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-senti… #AGI #mind #Philosophy

Fascinating. "The 2nd law of #thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of #Science , but it has always rested on 19th century arguments about probability. New arguments trace its true source to the flows of #quantum information." By @philipcball quantamagazine.org/physicists-tra…

Puzzling Quantum Scenario Appears Not to Conserve Energy By resolving a paradox about light in a box, researchers hope to clarify the concept of energy in quantum theory. By @mccornut quantamagazine.org/puzzling-quant… #physics #QuantumMechanics #Sciencenews

Recent experimental results at Fermilab could really spell the beginning of the end of the Standard Model, although only time will tell. bbc.com/news/science-e… #Physics #StandardModel

Bob Henderson, @RobertH90430077 , dove deeply into QBism, an interpretation of #QuantumTheory, & its originators. It was a journey that changed him. His telling of the story is also a journey, & the reader can hardly leave unchanged. cc @Horganism nautil.us/my-quantum-lea…

New Chip Rewires Itself Like the Brain. A new sort of hardware neuroplasticity that's already demonstrating potential superiority over "static" circuitry. By @EddytheGent singularityhub.com/2022/02/07/new… #Computing #Engineering #NeuralNetworks #MachineLearning

Perhaps a significant milestone towards the #democratization of programming. As such technologies continue to improve, they may do for #programming the same thing that personal computers and graphical user interfaces did for computing. zdnet.com/google-amp/art… #disruption

Strangely enough, some cosmologists believe a previous, cold dark empty universe like the one which lies in our far future could have been the source of our very own Big Bang. bit.ly/3mUbtCA

RT @lsanger Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, may be a thought leader in the same vein as Tim Berners-Lee. He was instrumental in creating powerful technology for the public good, & he's still fighting for the public good after his ideas were co-opted by corrupt interests.

nature has actually contacted me for comment about accusations that Sci-Hub is a threat, here is my full response / it is clear that academic publishers care about their money, not about security of other people

A great breakdown of the current #QuantumComputing landscape. RT @FrancoisGuite #computing

@JackPosobiec Goo. That's what could go wrong. Gray Goo: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo Green Goo: wired.com/2004/07/green-… These fantastic goos (and yes, apparently that is the correct plural of "goo") also come in at least one or two other colors. I can't remember them all, but they're all gooey

What could go wrong

@keeptalkinglol @notnotreading I am Justin, God of the world and I am so sorry for the delayed response.

Write "I am [your name], God of - and let the predictive text finish your sentence!

AI Can Now Model the Molecular Machines That Govern All Life By @ShellyFan singularityhub.com/2021/11/16/ai-… As earth-shattering as DeepMind's recent mapping of the human #proteome was, further developments since then have also been groundbreaking. #ArtificialIntelligence #biotech