Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

On 21/09/2024 19:40, Brett wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:29:31 -0000 (UTC), Brett wrote:
 

Quantum mechanics is high IQ bullshit to make professors look important.

 
Quantum mechanics is real. Quantum effects are real. Transistors only work
because electrons can “tunnel” through a barrier with higher energy than
they have, which should be classically impossible.

 
I did not criticize quantum effects, I criticized quantum mechanics which
is dumbshit SWAG that hides the truth of what is happening behind bullshit.
With greater understanding we can come up with classical explanations, but
those truths are too scary and could lead to the destruction of mankind.
 
If you want to know what is really going on watch the Eric Weinstein The
Portal videos.
 
https://youtu.be/xBx5Y1YLfZY?si=0sVFmvOh-bot2ok7
 
Eric is a scary bright physicist, he does not know the truth, but he knows
it’s being hidden, and he shows you.
 
“You can’t handle the truth.”
 
https://youtu.be/9FnO3igOkOk?si=0xmQuxz6yaLnBkCC
 
I don’t know the truth either, and if I did I would not speculate on it,
too dangerous.
 
https://www.amazon.com/Experts-Vs-Conspiracy-Theorists-T-Shirt/dp/B0CKLLCN9M/ref=asc_df_B0CKLLCN9M
 

 
In case anyone wants a safe link to information about this particular
muppet, without Google thinking they are interested in loony conspiracy
theories on the level of "birds don't exist", you can read about him at
<https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein>.
 
"""
Repressed genius
 
For years as a mathematician he has said that he has some kind of theory
of everything that will knock everyone out and overturn the field of
physics, but he just can't publish it yet because the world isn't ready,
and the information will only be suppressed.[6]
 
In 2020, Weinstein published his much-hyped Oxford lecture on his Theory
of Geometric Unity.[7] It was met with silence and indifference among
theoretical physicists and the scientific community at large.
 
On 1st April 2021, Weinstein released a draft of his paper online.[10]
Given the 1st April release date and the author details on the cover
page describing Weinstein as an "entertainer" and the paper itself as a
"work of entertainment", it is unclear at this stage whether Geometrical
Unity was an elaborate April Fools' Day Wikipedia prank all along.
"""
 
Rather than publishing his theories in peer-reviewed journals, like real
scary bright physicists, he promoted his views on Joe Rogan's podcast.
And he described himself as "not a physicist" (he is a venture
capitalist, not a scientist) and that the paper was "a work of
entertainment".  That should give you some idea of how seriously his
ideas should be taken.
 
 
 
Actual physicists know that quantum mechanics is not complete - it is
not a "theory of everything", and does not explain everything.  It is,
like Newtonian gravity and general relativity, a simplification that
gives an accurate model of reality within certain limitations, and
hopefully it will one day be superseded by a new theory that models
reality more accurately and over a wider range of circumstances.  That
is how science works.
 
As things stand today, no such better theory has been developed.  There
are a number of ideas and hypotheses (still far from being classifiable
as scientific theories) that show promise and have not yet been
demonstrated to be wrong, but that's as far as we have got.  Weinstein's
"Geometric Unity" is not such a hypotheses - the little that has been
published has been shown to be either wrong, or "not even wrong".
 
It's fine to come up with strange new ideas about how the universe
works.  You then publish and discuss those ideas, and work with other
scientists to weed out the clearly incorrect parts, try to expand and
modify it to fit what we know about reality, and to think about how it
could make predictions that could be tested.  That's part of the process
of science.
 
It's not fine to believe half-baked ramblings from someone who doesn't
understand what they are working with and won't listen to those who do.
The alternative to "I don't understand quantum mechanics" is /not/ to
believe whatever gobbledegook someone spouts on youtube.

https://tenor.com/view/dr-evil-right-riiiight-gif-7363102

Astronomers have only found a dozen Einstein Rings, with todays telescopes
we should be seeing billions of them, and the ones we find are so weak they
can be explained by light spreading in a dusty stellar environment, an
effect an order of magnitude smaller.

Einstein is provably wrong about gravity and all you hear are crickets.

Why? Because Einstein’s theories made designing a nuclear bomb 100 times
harder, which bought humanity two decades of peace. Of course now you can
do those calculations on your cell phone, but habits die hard. Atomic
refining treaties now protect us.

 “You can’t handle the truth.”