Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Uh a genuine
working
quantum algorithm that's more efficient that we can achieve classically would
um produce an untenable strain in any other interpretation than the Everett Everett interpretation.
Um
How much is all this worth to the progress of physics?
I would stack that list of contributions up against many contemporary research areas in physics.
It was done
in large part by people who had other official jobs or who suffered significant career ramifications for working on on ideas that were considered too philosophical for mainstream physics.
It was done for almost no money.
So there's a sense in which if you divide the output by the input, you practically get a division by zero there.
So if anyone is thinking about like how to make the biggest bang for your buck in terms of making contributions to physics, I would argue that we need to invest more in philosophy of physics.
I think every physics department should have a resident philosopher of physics there to hold accountable physics.
Right, just one.
I mean the whole department.
You have a department of five physicists, ten physicists, the big ones have thirty or forty.
At least the big ones should all have one philosopher of physics who shows up at seminars and like Stettler and Waldorf in in in The Muppets, you know, calls attention to when people are saying things that that run beyond what the data allow or arguments that don't really hold up or engage in too much wild speculation.
I think that would be an incredibly
Alone, separate from the fact that I think probing these fundamental questions is itself a creative enterprise, right?
The purpose of philosophy physics is not merely to criticize or hold back um uh physics that's that's not done as well as it should.
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