Guillaume Verdon

But eventually, I realized that actually augmenting ourselves with machines, augmenting our ability to perceive, predict, and control our world with machines is the path forward. And that's what got me to leave theoretical physics and go into quantum computing and quantum machine learning. And during those years, I thought that there was still a piece missing.

There was a piece of our understanding of the world and our way to compute and our way to think about the world. And if you look at the physical scales, right? At the very small scales, things are quantum mechanical. And at the very large scales, things are deterministic. Things have averaged out. I'm definitely here in this seat. I'm not in a superposition over here and there.

There was a piece of our understanding of the world and our way to compute and our way to think about the world. And if you look at the physical scales, right? At the very small scales, things are quantum mechanical. And at the very large scales, things are deterministic. Things have averaged out. I'm definitely here in this seat. I'm not in a superposition over here and there.

There was a piece of our understanding of the world and our way to compute and our way to think about the world. And if you look at the physical scales, right? At the very small scales, things are quantum mechanical. And at the very large scales, things are deterministic. Things have averaged out. I'm definitely here in this seat. I'm not in a superposition over here and there.

At the very small scales, things are in superposition. They can exhibit interference effects. But at the mesoscales, the scales that matter for day-to-day life, the scales of proteins, of biology, of gases, liquids, and so on, things are actually thermodynamical. They're fluctuating.

At the very small scales, things are in superposition. They can exhibit interference effects. But at the mesoscales, the scales that matter for day-to-day life, the scales of proteins, of biology, of gases, liquids, and so on, things are actually thermodynamical. They're fluctuating.

At the very small scales, things are in superposition. They can exhibit interference effects. But at the mesoscales, the scales that matter for day-to-day life, the scales of proteins, of biology, of gases, liquids, and so on, things are actually thermodynamical. They're fluctuating.

And after, I guess, about eight years in quantum computing and quantum machine learning, I had a realization that I was looking for answers about our universe by studying the very big and the very small, right? I did a bit of quantum cosmology, so that's studying the cosmos, where it's going, where it came from. You study black hole physics. You study the extremes in quantum gravity.

And after, I guess, about eight years in quantum computing and quantum machine learning, I had a realization that I was looking for answers about our universe by studying the very big and the very small, right? I did a bit of quantum cosmology, so that's studying the cosmos, where it's going, where it came from. You study black hole physics. You study the extremes in quantum gravity.

And after, I guess, about eight years in quantum computing and quantum machine learning, I had a realization that I was looking for answers about our universe by studying the very big and the very small, right? I did a bit of quantum cosmology, so that's studying the cosmos, where it's going, where it came from. You study black hole physics. You study the extremes in quantum gravity.

You study where the energy density is sufficient for both quantum mechanics and gravity to be relevant, right? And the sort of extreme scenarios are black holes in the very early universe. So there's the sort of scenarios that you study the interface between quantum mechanics and relativity. And really, I was studying these extremes to

You study where the energy density is sufficient for both quantum mechanics and gravity to be relevant, right? And the sort of extreme scenarios are black holes in the very early universe. So there's the sort of scenarios that you study the interface between quantum mechanics and relativity. And really, I was studying these extremes to

You study where the energy density is sufficient for both quantum mechanics and gravity to be relevant, right? And the sort of extreme scenarios are black holes in the very early universe. So there's the sort of scenarios that you study the interface between quantum mechanics and relativity. And really, I was studying these extremes to

understand how the universe works and where is it going, but I was missing a lot of the meat in the middle, if you will, right? Because day-to-day quantum mechanics is relevant and the cosmos is relevant, but not that relevant, actually. We're on sort of the medium space and time scales. And there, the main theory of physics that is most relevant is thermodynamics, right?

understand how the universe works and where is it going, but I was missing a lot of the meat in the middle, if you will, right? Because day-to-day quantum mechanics is relevant and the cosmos is relevant, but not that relevant, actually. We're on sort of the medium space and time scales. And there, the main theory of physics that is most relevant is thermodynamics, right?

understand how the universe works and where is it going, but I was missing a lot of the meat in the middle, if you will, right? Because day-to-day quantum mechanics is relevant and the cosmos is relevant, but not that relevant, actually. We're on sort of the medium space and time scales. And there, the main theory of physics that is most relevant is thermodynamics, right?

Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics. Because life is a process that is thermodynamical, and it's out-of-equilibrium. We're not just a soup of particles at equilibrium with nature. We're a sort of coherent state trying to maintain itself by acquiring free energy and consuming it. And that's sort of, I guess, another shift in my faith in the universe happened towards the end of my time at Alphabet.

Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics. Because life is a process that is thermodynamical, and it's out-of-equilibrium. We're not just a soup of particles at equilibrium with nature. We're a sort of coherent state trying to maintain itself by acquiring free energy and consuming it. And that's sort of, I guess, another shift in my faith in the universe happened towards the end of my time at Alphabet.

Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics. Because life is a process that is thermodynamical, and it's out-of-equilibrium. We're not just a soup of particles at equilibrium with nature. We're a sort of coherent state trying to maintain itself by acquiring free energy and consuming it. And that's sort of, I guess, another shift in my faith in the universe happened towards the end of my time at Alphabet.

And I knew I wanted to build, well, first of all, a computing paradigm based on this type of physics. But ultimately, just by trying to experiment with these ideas applied to society and economies and much of what we see around us, I started an anonymous account just to relieve the pressure that comes from having an account that you're accountable for everything you say on.