1/ Long-time followers of this feed will note that I smuggle ideas at times. One of which is that it’s in society’s best interest to pay certain groups vastly more money, and usually groups that infuriate me. If you look at Jeffrey Epstein’s stable of scientists you may get why.
2/ Think of the underpaid U.S. research community (particularly theoretical physicists, molecular biologists, ML-experts & top mathematicians) as an unlocked Yellow Bugatti with the motor running and ‘Steal Me’ painted in red on the front hood, in Mandarin/Farsi/Russian/Arabic...
3/ Epstein offered many scientists ‘restoration’ by dangling private planes, exotic locales & FUNDING (probably more than sex) the way colleges at Oxford and Cambridge use cellars and high table. We need to fire our worst researchers & start paying our best at a different scale.
4/ Were I Epstein or whoever created the ‘Jeffrey Epstein Secretive Finacial Genius character’, my scientific targets would have partially overlapped his. But I‘d have bought off the entire IAS physics department outright. Those people should all be made very wealthy & happy.
End/ Oddly, Epstein was buying quite good people, but many who were distinguished by being outward facing rather than the quiet introverted types famous within the fields yet all but unknown outside of them. That‘s a puzzle. Maybe they were the lure to entrap others. Or perhaps..
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The technical name for this article’s swift and devastating takedown strategy inside the FBI is “Image Cheapening” which we have known since the 1970s via Davidon et al.
We don’t yet know why it was written. We don’t yet know who commissioned it.
We do know that no independent minded health professional who could contradict the public health institutions and czars has been allowed to ascend to @hubermanlab’s level of popularity, power and influence without “Image Cheapening” coverage.
In fact, since Lindbergh used his popularity to sway public opinion on entry into WWII, no independent minded individual has been
amassed state-level influence without such FUD (Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt) campaigns. The theory we have advanced behind this is that the State learned the lesson from Lindbergh’s interference with FDR that all charismatic independent minded individuals (like a John Lennon) cannot be allowed state levels of influence and must be preemptively cheapened and harassed. Here it is applied to medical professionals who could interfere with future Anthony Fauci health czars.
Cc: @DrJBhattacharya, @MartinKulldorff, @RandPaul
This is the medical version of “No Living Heroes” theory:
Twitter over compensates for the very real madness of the institutional world.
Despite being seen as contrarian, here are some mainstream Physics opinions that I hold, which Twitter somehow finds controversial:
I don’t think The Universe is “made of Consciousness.”
I don’t think Dark Energy is “Sus”.
I think Dark Matter is real.
I don’t think the Standard Model is ‘bogus’.
I don’t think “universities are over”.
I don’t think String Theory (for all its problems) or String Theorists are stupid.
Etc.
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Twitter is kinda just nuts. No matter how extreme my opinions are by real world standards, Twitter is always more extreme. Perhaps it is because people hold things that they claim are “opinions”, but which would require more details and knowledge to elevate to that level. For example, I don’t think I have an opinion on reasons of political economy for recent changes in the credit rating of Macedonian municipal bonds. So it is always surprising to see so many accounts claiming to hold strong heterodox opinions on wormholes, dark matter or the Big Bang.
I will respond to a few responses here to give an idea of what is going on X/Twitter.
Tweet 1. In physics, equations often don’t balance. So we add terms to account for what we can’t YET directly detect. The Neutron, quarks, Higgs field and Neutrino all had such an origin. By now all have been directly observed and fairly well modeled.
This is why I point out that neutrinos are basically dark matter, but for the weak force as the only non gravitational force to couple to them and affect them.
Dark is a spooky and misleading name for these which makes dark energy and dark matter sound similar. They aren’t.
Think of dark matter as being “decoupled matter” and/or “ultra heavy matter we can’t see at current accelerator energies” and it might seem to be less suspicious.
I don’t yet have a comparable suggestion for dark energy. Sorry.
Tweet 2:
“Theory of everything” as an idea confuses people. It’s sorta a string theory branding problem. The store “Just Tires” also does oil changes.
String Theorists relentlessly used “Theory of Everything” to grab our attention just as a store that wanted a simple message. Surely a theory of everything would scientifically explain “Why is there something rather than nothing?” just as “Just Tires” would surely not do oil changes.
Well, both went bust but couldn’t change their branding.
Even if is ultimately accepted as a TOE, Geometric Unity *cannot* explain why there is something rather than nothing. TOE is a term of art meaning that the input is something natural and simple and the output is presumably complete as the rules for the universe.
A TOE is more properly an attempt at the answer to “Why do the rules for everything unpack from assumptions so simple as to defy further scientific interest?” GU attempts to unpack from the assumption of 4-degrees of freedom (a manifold) and a tiny amount of natural structure like orientations and spin structures that are geometric and natural. It doesn’t explain from where that came.
A TOE doesn’t seek to put the theologian and philosopher out of business.
Something terrible is about to happen to innocent people in Gaza. It will be horrific to watch. Make sure you fully familiarize yourself with the concepts above the line.
I’m not leaving this here for you. It’s for me.
Some of those killed by IDF bombs, rockets, bullets and missiles will undoubtedly be human shields taken hostage. Prepare yourself. Know that this is unavoidable.
Some Arabs who now hate Hamas will turn to Hamas due to carnage. Again, this is all part of pre-scripted strategy.
Remember that the reaction will shift towards condemnation of Israel, as Israel does Hamas’ bidding by destroying Hamas.
This will be hard to explain to people. Many will not accept it: “No one wants to see their own people destroyed.” or “Why comply when Hamas is baiting you?”
Anonymous accounts are used by institutions for both astroturfing & bot farming. They are used for FUD campaigning by institutions and their armies to destroy those who stand up under their own names.
I really don’t get this. This is not pro-underdog. Something else is going on.
A pro-underdog position would be different. It would not assume that accounts standing up to protest would be just individuals against unjust institutions. It would view anonymity as an amoral tool rather than a good thing in and of itself.
To celebrate anonymity makes no sense.
But if you the tech company have a better idea as to who is behind the anons then maybe you are the winner. They are not anonymous to you.
But to not acknowledge the very real problems and dangers anonymous accounts pose to safety, fairness, individuals and civil society is to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@JosephPConlon It is not objective or absolutely true that String Theory is our best theory. In fact, it has become, 40 years after the anomaly cancelation, our most thoroughly explored idea. No other path has been picked over like this one.
@JosephPConlon I don’t think that is the relevant argument anymore. So you are framing it in such a way that “String Theory” is the answer to a question you formulated: “Of all the approaches to quantizing gravity which haven’t worked, which is the best?”
Many Americans learned about how far off their concept of “science” was from COVID. They thought that science was something they could trust. They trusted their vaccines. Their FDA. The CDC.
Quite honestly, @DrJBhattacharya said to me “I was at Stanford for 35 years as a researcher and didn’t know how any of this really worked.”
Fauci/Collins/Daszak didn’t just break trust with lay people. They showed even successful researchers that there’s a secret 🌎 in science.
And almost all of us were left guessing. We knew we couldn’t make informed decisions for our families because Public Health was taking away our ability to understand what was going on.
They were lying. And they were forcing their lies into our families. Into our Wikipedia pages.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…