@highergeometer @davidsuculum
It might or might not be worthwhile. Many times I've delved into the work of qualified mathematical physicists who nonetheless did fringe work that was ignored by the mainstream, e.g. I can't remember his name, but someone circa 1975..1980 wrote a book founding […]

@highergeometer
Corfield obviously knows his math (although I'm not qualified to judge it, which is a different question anyway).

I also recognize that paper's coauthor "Urs Schreiber", quite famous as co-founder of the n-Category Café, along with John Baez and ummm...someone else.

I've seen […]

It didn't easily turn up and I had to use some search-engine-foo, but here it is:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/new-foundations-for-physical-geometry-9780198701309

and here's the description:

"Topology is the mathematical study of the most basic geometrical structure of a space […]

@highergeometer @davidsuculum
Space-time as hyperbolic geometry in special relativity definitely defines what makes time different than space, so that part seems uncontroversial.

There have been many, many different axioms systems offered that each had their own arguable merits, so I don't see […]

@highergeometer @davidsuculum
Space-time as hyperbolic geometry in special relativity definitely defines what makes time different than space, so that part seems uncontroversial.

There have been many, many different axioms systems offered that each had their own arguable merits, so I don't see […]

@robinhouston
Really!? That's crazy!

@skewray @dpiponi
Yes, this has gone from "sounds annoying" to "weird" to "bizarre" and now is obviously in the camp of "space aliens".

@synlogic4242 @bruces
Incidentally Bruce was quoting from this essay from 2 days ago:
Three Years of ChatGPT: Now the Hard Questions Begin
https://shellypalmer.com/2025/11/three-years-of-chatgpt-now-the-hard-questions-begin/

@synlogic4242
I *did* know that 40+ years ago, yes, and obviously not all of the LLM folks realized it. Our minds are not arbitrary abstract intelligence; our brains evolved in the specific environment of Earth's physics and peculiarities.

But be careful not to underestimate though -- there […]

@skewray
There are commercially available FPGA add-on boards for PCs. As perhaps you know. Which then suggests that maybe you're wishing for a better ecosystem surrounding them.

The debug cycle left much to be desired, last I looked.

@dougmerritt agreed. LLMs have been a huge leap forward and simulating language conversations and just plain understanding what they're asked. they just are also clearly broken in the brain -- not thinking. I used Gemini a lot earlier this year, and for like first week I was in honeymoon phase […]