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  1. Jul 2023
    1. there is a greater Danger from artificial intelligence if we allow it to become self-designing for then it can improve itself rapidly when we may lose control
      • quote
        • "There is a greater danger from artificial intelligence if we allow it to become self-designing for then it can improve itself rapidly when we may lose control"
      • author
        • Stephen Hawking
  2. Jun 2022
    1. when Britannica conducted followup research on whether or not the books were actually being read, they found that buyers who really read the books were the exception. The two largest sub-categories among buyers who were more likely to have read the books were housewives and men trained in some sort of technical profession.

      Research by Britannica (source?) indicated that the Great Books of the Western World sold well but were not often read.

      Link to: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Owen Gingerich Copernicus

  3. Mar 2018
    1. Ce paradoxe de l’information, à l’interface entre mécanique quantique et relativité générale, ne sera jamais vraiment résolu tant qu’on ne disposera pas d’une théorie qui unifie ces deux cadres.

      Cela paraît difficilement réalisable puisque les deux théories semble se contre-dire. Peut-être devons nous accepter deux états de la matière, puisque nous ne faisons jamais l'expérience directe des comportements quantiques.