Shawn Ryan

And, like, what if they oversell things too much to the extent where then it hurts the – like, it's not –

Like there is value to expertise that I think that sometimes people overcorrect on things and they don't trust like science and stuff like that, right?

So like how do you...

engage with like like hard conversations of like where is this field going or things like that without throwing the baby out with the bathwater or like making it hard to to like collaborate so i used to be more like oh no they're gonna say they're gonna do all these things i know that my heroes kind of liked physics so is it gonna be like that like the guys with the funding get access to all the data start making some claims of theories and then like like i

we don't know enough to be able to tell them why they're wrong, yada, yada.

The route that ended up happening instead is more like, oh, we're going to take the top people in the field, not like the Harvard professors, not me, and just work with them and collaborate with them first.

It's a funny reputation thing.

But it's fine.

It makes sense.

It's a business move.

It makes sense.

But it's a funny thing where we're more a part of it than I might have thought.

I thought it would be like we're going to get overwhelmed with a bunch of crockpot papers by physics enthusiasts.

And it's

Less that and more this funny thing where it says we're all in the labs for a little bit or not, but how do we really do this right?

Instead of it being like, okay, so say one company wants to show that they're doing some research, they can work with a few top researchers and then the top researchers can say it's interesting.

But we want to do cooler shit than we could have done before.

And how do you...

I think that it's funny, it's like, you think it wouldn't be that hard to try to just get all bunch of string theorists to like, let's do what they do for math, write down a bunch of like well enough defined questions and dare someone to like try to automate it.

And even we could do, we could have more fun.