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Ticks of time: on Cosmology, Everest, and Ballet
Ticks of time: on Cosmology, Everest, and Ballet
I am deeply humbled by this work that I was sent by email:
https://philpapers.org/archive/ALITDU.pdf, by Nadisha-Marie Aliman and Leon Kester.
Nadisha-Marie Aliman and Leon Kester: “The Deepfake Universe Apocalypse?”
I never met the authors, but the article draws strongly on an argument I wrote in a hurry in about two hours, in a quantum gravity article, in section IX here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.08694. That section is called `The role of science as unifier of threads: quantum gravity, biocosmology, and artificial general intelligence’.
Since I am spending so much time on AI standards, I did not have time to spell that argument properly nor include references to that section. I cited Jaron‘s two New Yorker pieces from 2023
Lanier: There Is No A.I.
Lanier: What My Musical Instruments Have Taught Me
Aliman and Kester go on to cite my recent AI standards IEEE White Paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01808, and my “Free Will and the Arrow of Time” article,
(TIME AND SCIENCE: Volume 3: Physical Sciences and Cosmology, pp. 327–350. World Scientific (2023)).
I didn’t even have time yet to upload this to the arXiv!
Aliman and Kester’s article is the one I was wanting to write if I could have a moment to spell the argument in section IX of the quantum gravity article above.
I don’t have time to publicise my work because I run around in a constant frenzy between projects. The fact that someone I never met was paying attention and was able to join the dots is deeply moving. Knowing that Aliman and Kester wrote this article might mean that we are not as alone as we think we are, and a bit of hope that we will get through this.
PS – The bibliography in Aliman and Kester, though admittedly drawn from the references I included in the quantum gravity article, reads like a list of my best friends, so I cannot avoid to thank these fantastic people (in no particular order): Jaron Lanier, Stu Kauffman, Lee Smolin, Andrea Roli, Tim Palmer, Thomas Hertog (who I never met, but I did the scientific revision of The Origin of Time – Portugal), João Vasco Gomes – my awesome grad student, my super awesome IEEE-SA p3395 team (including Anthony Kelly, Ken Matusow, David Bray), Roger Penrose and so on and so forth.
