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Leuenberger's avatar

Hello Curt, nice post. From your conversation with Neil De Grasse Tyson, I recall that he not only dismissed philosophy of science as useless, but earlier in the conversation, when you started to talk about Chaitin’s incompleteness theorem, NDT dismissed it as just a distraction that would potentially even have distracted astrophysicists from making great progress for the past 50 years if they had wasted time thinking about such issues. This brings me to something strongly related which is highly relevant to your show: The root cause of the 50 year stagnation of is essentially physicists not having studied Kolmogorov complexity enough. This is explained in this new paper which also mentions Chaitin’s incompleteness theorem somewhere: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23194

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Eric Inclan's avatar

Hi Curt. Excellent post!

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