Andrew Strominger
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Where do they come from?
Is there an organizing principle?
Is there some further unification?
So being able to predict everything is not the only goal that physicists have.
Yeah.
Right.
We're more interested in understanding than actually doing the predictions.
But the predictions are more...
Focusing on how to make predictions is a good way to improve your understanding because you know you've understood it if you can do the predictions.
But even within AI, AI people are trying to understand what it is that the AI bots have learned in order to
produce whatever they produce.
It's possible.
I don't, I don't, I,
Honestly, I don't know.
But I'm pretty confident that if there is, we won't get to it in my lifetime.
I don't think we're near it.
By a theory of everything, you mean a theory of
of everything, an algorithm to predict everything.
A relatively simple algorithm to predict everything.
So for me, it would be a sad day if we arrived at that without answering some deeper questions.