Sean Carroll

Alex West says, with the general release of AI, have you noticed any fluctuations or trends in both the quality and quantity of peer-reviewed papers and more personally emails from the next Einsteins? Well, that's a good question. For peer-reviewed papers, no, I certainly have not.

Alex West says, with the general release of AI, have you noticed any fluctuations or trends in both the quality and quantity of peer-reviewed papers and more personally emails from the next Einsteins? Well, that's a good question. For peer-reviewed papers, no, I certainly have not.

It's a weird thing to me because in my kind of field, the most active people, you know, the people who are most respected in the field basically know each other, and you know what people are doing, and you recognize their names when they write papers, and people write a few papers a year. Some are more prolific than others.

It's a weird thing to me because in my kind of field, the most active people, you know, the people who are most respected in the field basically know each other, and you know what people are doing, and you recognize their names when they write papers, and people write a few papers a year. Some are more prolific than others.

But there are these other fields where apparently there exist people who just write, I don't know, 100 papers a year, which is essentially impossible. It's not the field's fault because that's not typical in that field, but you can get away with doing that. I can't even read 100 papers a year. But obviously there's a lot of churn here.

But there are these other fields where apparently there exist people who just write, I don't know, 100 papers a year, which is essentially impossible. It's not the field's fault because that's not typical in that field, but you can get away with doing that. I can't even read 100 papers a year. But obviously there's a lot of churn here.

People are leaning on other co-authors to do writing or they're just taking something they've already written and rewriting it 10 different times and submitting it as an extra paper, etc. But that's not my world. In that world, AI might be very, very helpful if all you're trying to do is maximize the number of papers you submit somewhere and publish them in junk journals or whatever.

People are leaning on other co-authors to do writing or they're just taking something they've already written and rewriting it 10 different times and submitting it as an extra paper, etc. But that's not my world. In that world, AI might be very, very helpful if all you're trying to do is maximize the number of papers you submit somewhere and publish them in junk journals or whatever.

That I don't really follow, so I wouldn't know. In the field that I'm in, I don't think that I've noticed anything at all as a result of AI, except that people are writing papers about AI, which makes perfect sense. As to the next Einstein thing, when I read this question at first, I thought, no, I don't think that there has been an uptick or a change in quality.

That I don't really follow, so I wouldn't know. In the field that I'm in, I don't think that I've noticed anything at all as a result of AI, except that people are writing papers about AI, which makes perfect sense. As to the next Einstein thing, when I read this question at first, I thought, no, I don't think that there has been an uptick or a change in quality.

And I think that there's an explanation for that psychologically. You know, the people who think of the next Einstein, they don't want to hand over credit to AI, right? They don't want to say, well, you know, the AI and I put this together. They want to say that their own personal genius is responsible for this.

And I think that there's an explanation for that psychologically. You know, the people who think of the next Einstein, they don't want to hand over credit to AI, right? They don't want to say, well, you know, the AI and I put this together. They want to say that their own personal genius is responsible for this.

But having thought of it and having a few days gone by, it is possible that I'm getting more of those emails. I've always gotten a lot. Arguably, the numbers are small, but it's possible that I'm getting more now. And so maybe they're just not telling me and they are indeed helping themselves to a little bit of AI help when making up their theories of everything. Look, life is short.

But having thought of it and having a few days gone by, it is possible that I'm getting more of those emails. I've always gotten a lot. Arguably, the numbers are small, but it's possible that I'm getting more now. And so maybe they're just not telling me and they are indeed helping themselves to a little bit of AI help when making up their theories of everything. Look, life is short.

I don't spend a lot of time paying attention to those papers. So as soon as I can tell that the email is from someone who has a new theory of everything, all they need is for me to fill in the math, that gets filed pretty quickly.

I don't spend a lot of time paying attention to those papers. So as soon as I can tell that the email is from someone who has a new theory of everything, all they need is for me to fill in the math, that gets filed pretty quickly.

Janderson or some version of Letters and Numbers says, in your recent solo episode number 300, you present a way time might be modeled as emerging from the universal wave function. Am I right in assuming that this method could also be used to produce any number of other dimensions of space and time perhaps?

Janderson or some version of Letters and Numbers says, in your recent solo episode number 300, you present a way time might be modeled as emerging from the universal wave function. Am I right in assuming that this method could also be used to produce any number of other dimensions of space and time perhaps?

Well, the particular method that I was talking about, the idea, doesn't really work with space. It doesn't really make sense. What you're trying to do is take advantage of the fact that there is two features of quantum mechanics, number one, entanglement, and number two, superposition.

Well, the particular method that I was talking about, the idea, doesn't really work with space. It doesn't really make sense. What you're trying to do is take advantage of the fact that there is two features of quantum mechanics, number one, entanglement, and number two, superposition.