Adam Brown

So I'm very curious to see what happens.

I mean, the dream there would be that, you know,

There's lots of things hidden in the data that no human would ever be able to tease out.

And that by doing this, you could just revolutionize the amount of... These astronomical observatories are incredibly expensive.

If we can just have a computer better parse all of the data from them in a way that no human ever could, that would be a tremendous improvement.

These things are very good at finding patterns, and maybe they'll find patterns that are not particularly interesting to a human.

Yeah.

I mean, I think that could be productive.

One challenge in that would be how do you evaluate whether you had a good theory at the end?

That's going to be the tricky bit.

For things that are most easily paralyzed are things in which if you get the right answer, it's clear you got the right answer.

You know, perhaps things in NP, one might say.

Whereas in this case...

Is special relativity – how would your computer know if it generated special relativity that it was on to a winner?

There are various ways in which it could know.

It could check that it was mathematically self-consistent and various other facts.

But the evaluation is going to be a tricky part of this pipeline that you might wish to set up.

There is an experimental way that you could detect time dilation.

But that would involve sending out probes or doing something in the real world, whereas I thought you were just trying to run this in a data center.

I think maybe this is a philosophical difference, where you maybe think that the way that a theory is good is that it best matches the...