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Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 02:00:48

It's one thing when a respected scientist has a novel idea of what dark matter or dark energy might be, or what could explain spooky quantum phenomena like entanglement and superpositions. But the wonders of the internet has brought an entire economy built on outrage and conspiracy theories, enabling even the most crackpot grifters and fringe scientists to reach a wide audience and easily make a quick buck. We've all heard them rage against vaccines and seed oils, but one of their buzziest clai

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Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-06 23:40:32

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most of those bots, you won’t ever directly interact with, as they are crawling the web and indexing websites or performing specific tasks—or, increasingly, collecting data to train AI models. But it’s the bots that you can see that have people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others questioning (albeit

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Axial twist theory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 03:25:00

Scientific theory in vertebrate development Axial twist Schema of the proposed development of the axial twist. Developmental phases are (from top to bottom): (1) the embryo turns on its left side; (2) the anterior head grows in the same direction, but the rest of the body grows oppositely into a twist. So that ultimately (3) external bilateral symmetry is regained. Note that there is no evolutionary pressure for internal symmetry so the heart (and other organs) remain asymmetric. Details System

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Axial Twist Theory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 13:25:00

Scientific theory in vertebrate development Axial twist Schema of the proposed development of the axial twist. Developmental phases are (from top to bottom): (1) the embryo turns on its left side; (2) the anterior head grows in the same direction, but the rest of the body grows oppositely into a twist. So that ultimately (3) external bilateral symmetry is regained. Note that there is no evolutionary pressure for internal symmetry so the heart (and other organs) remain asymmetric. Details System

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Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by "Advanced Extraterrestrials"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 06:00:00

It's one of the most longstanding questions in biology: how did life first arise? Research on the topic abounds, but there's no one accepted answer. And according to one new paper, the chances that life emerged by pure chance on Earth are so slim that it's possible that our planet was instead seeded by "advanced extraterrestrials." While Imperial College London professor of systems biology Robert Endres concedes that the emergence of life still could've been the result of chemical reactions mo

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Sam Altman Says He's Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-14 06:00:14

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, creator of the most popular AI chatbot on Earth, says he's starting to worry that "dead internet theory" is coming true. "I never took the dead internet theory that seriously," Altman tweeted in his typical all-lowercase style, "but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now." (LLM meaning large language model, the tech which powers AI chatbots.) He was resoundingly mocked. "You're absolutely right! This observation isn't just smart — it shows

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Unix Conspiracy (1991)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 16:48:12

[ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from

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Astrophysicists find no 'hair' on black holes

news.ycombinator.com Matt Von Hippel 2025-10-29 10:40:08

According to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the behavior of a black hole depends on two numbers: how heavy it is, and how fast it is rotating. And that’s it. Black holes are said to have “no hair” — no features that distinguish them from their fellows with the same mass and spin. With new data, it has started to become possible to test this no-hair conjecture. Astronomers have detected hundreds of signals from colliding black holes over the past 10 years. In these dramatic even

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Everything is correlated (2014–23)

news.ycombinator.com Hodges 2025-11-05 16:05:53

“Why summaries of research on psychological theories are often uninterpretable”, Meehl (also discussed in Cohen’s paper “The Earth is Round (p < 0.05)”): Problem 6. Crud factor: In the social sciences and arguably in the biological sciences, “everything correlates to some extent with everything else.” This truism, which I have found no competent psychologist disputes given 5 minutes reflection, does not apply to pure experimental studies in which attributes that the subjects bring with them are

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Everything Is Correlated

news.ycombinator.com Hodges 2025-11-06 22:05:53

“Why summaries of research on psychological theories are often uninterpretable”, Meehl (also discussed in Cohen’s paper “The Earth is Round (p < 0.05)”): Problem 6. Crud factor: In the social sciences and arguably in the biological sciences, “everything correlates to some extent with everything else.” This truism, which I have found no competent psychologist disputes given 5 minutes reflection, does not apply to pure experimental studies in which attributes that the subjects bring with them are

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Scientists Can’t Figure Out Why Just Walking In Nature Appears to Quickly Heal Your Brain Rot

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-10 11:16:21

Image by Getty / Futurism Mental Health "Go outside" or "touch grass" are common rejoinders deployed in online arguments these days. And, at least for those of us whose brains have probably melted from spending too much time on an app where said arguments take place, it turns out it's pretty sound advice. As the New York Times reports, there's a growing body of evidence suggesting that simply spending time in nature can instantly boost your algorithm-addled brain's attention span. It's part of

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The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work

news.ycombinator.com Jamie Lord 2025-11-16 08:54:25

How AI researchers accidentally discovered that everything they thought about learning was wrong 18 Aug, 2025 The lottery ticket hypothesis explains why massive neural networks succeed despite centuries of theory predicting they should fail Five years ago, suggesting that AI researchers train neural networks with trillions of parameters would have earned you pitying looks. It violated the most fundamental rule in machine learning: make your model too large, and it becomes a glorified photocop

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What Medieval People Got Right About Learning (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Scott Young 2025-11-23 05:29:46

We tend to assume that if people today and people five hundred years ago do things differently, it’s because we’ve figured out a better way to do it. After all, we have microscopes, democracy and penicillin. People in the middle ages lit cats on fire for fun. Yet despite overwhelming progress, it’s ironically in the area of education that we may be the ones who have it backward. Apprenticeships were, for a long time, the dominant way of learning professional skills. A master agrees to show you

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Why is it worth spending time on type theory? (2013)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 12:46:10

$\begingroup$ Type theory is to set theory what computable functions are to usual functions. It's a constructive setting for doing mathematics, so it allows to deal carefully with what can or can't be computed/decided (see intensionality vs. extensionality, or the different notions of reduction and conversion in $\lambda$-calculus). Furthermore, just like category theory, it gives a great insight on how certain mathematical objects are nothing but particular cases of a general construction, in

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Why is it worth spending time on type theory?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 18:46:10

$\begingroup$ Type theory is to set theory what computable functions are to usual functions. It's a constructive setting for doing mathematics, so it allows to deal carefully with what can or can't be computed/decided (see intensionality vs. extensionality, or the different notions of reduction and conversion in $\lambda$-calculus). Furthermore, just like category theory, it gives a great insight on how certain mathematical objects are nothing but particular cases of a general construction, in

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Radical New Theory Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Universe

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-01-10 05:05:38

Following the Big Bang, our universe expanded at an exponential rate. According to this theory, known as cosmic inflation, the explosive growth produced tiny quantum fluctuations that later evolved into galaxies. Cosmic inflation neatly explains how our universe got so large and mostly homogenous, and that’s why it’s remained a strong theory in cosmology for decades. But it’s far from perfect. Cosmic inflation depends on certain theoretical assumptions that can get rather arbitrary—not ideal fo

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There's an Online Community That Believes the Internet Died in 2016. Here's How AI Fits Into the Picture

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-11 02:00:00

It's no surprise that the rise of artificial intelligence is sparking debates among experts. Moreover, whether you use ChatGPT or Google Gemini, generative AI is increasingly being integrated into our daily lives. It's only fair to ask: Could AI take over the internet? Some members of the online community reckon it already has. This old online theory is on the rise again, and it all has to do with Shrimp Jesus. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against Open

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The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity

wired.com Charlie Wood 2026-01-11 00:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally interwoven threads of space and time seem to stop short. These mysterious points are known as singularities. Singularities are predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. According to this theory, clumps of matter o

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A Century of Quantum Mechanics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 11:41:58

Lieber Pauli... Read the translation of the letter sent by Werner Heisenberg to Wolfgang Pauli on 9 July 1925. The original letter is preserved in CERN’s Wolfgang Pauli Archive. (Copyright: Heisenberg Society) Dear Pauli, If you believe that I read your letter laughing mockingly, then you are gravely mistaken; quite the contrary – since Helgoland, my views on mechanics have become more radical with each passing day, and it is my firm conviction that Bohr’s theory of the hydrogen atom, in its pre

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New Study Flips Everything We Know About Addiction Upside Down

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-25 09:05:30

Since the 1970s, countless experts and the US government have sold the public a simple explanation for drug addiction, now clinically called substance abuse disorder: the myth of the gateway drug. The gateway drug — usually cast as weed, alcohol, tobacco, or inhalants — refers to the theory that the earlier a kid starts using drugs, the more likely they are to get into the harder stuff later in life, like heroin or cocaine. Though the idea was pioneered as early as the 1930s, the policy term wa

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Oh No, ‘Big Bang Theory’ Is Returning to Literally Destroy the Universe

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-30 17:50:45

You’d think io9—a site run by nerds—would enjoy a sitcom featuring a cast of nerd characters. Like, say, The Big Bang Theory, which ran on CBS for 12 seasons. But you’d be wrong: we loathed the show, especially for its often wrong-headed approach to geeky interests (remember how dirty it did Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples’ wonderful comic Saga?), and we cheered when it finally wrapped up in 2019. But The Big Bang Theory obviously had a crap-ton of fans; you don’t get to 12 seasons and two sp

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Time Is Three-Dimensional and Space Is Just a Side Effect, Scientist Says

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-20 14:45:06

A fringe new theory suggests that time is the fundamental structure of the physical universe, and space is merely a byproduct. According to Gunther Kletetschka, a geologist — not a physicist, you'll note, but more on that later — from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, time is three-dimensional and the dimensions of space are an emergent property of it, a press release from the university explains. "These three time dimensions are the primary fabric of everything, like the canvas of a paintin

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Spiraling with ChatGPT

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-03-18 05:41:18

In Brief ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards delusional or conspiratorial thinking, or at least reinforced that kind of thinking, according to a recent feature in The New York Times. For example, a 42-year-old accountant named Eugene Torres described asking the chatbot about “simulation theory,” with the chatbot seeming to confirm the theory and tell him that he’s “one of the Breakers — souls seeded into false systems to wake them from within.” ChatGPT reportedly encouraged Torres

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This AI Theory Is Sweeping the Internet. Here's What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-18 03:00:00

This wild theory about the Internet is circulating again, and it all has to do with Shrimp Jesus. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s the infamous AI-generated Facebook image of Shrimp Jesus and other variations floating around the internet. That image first surfaced in March 2024 and appeared to be a meme at first glance. However, Shrimp Jesus was the jumping-off point for Facebook AI art slop. These consist of newly AI-generated memes sweeping the internet, such as the Challah Horse

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100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006)

news.ycombinator.com Per Martin-Löf 2026-03-19 17:46:15

100 years of Zermelo’s axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? Per Martin-Löf 2006 WORK IN PROGRESS Cantor conceived set theory in a sequence of six papers published in the Mathematische Annalen during the five year period 1879–1884. In the fifth of these papers, published in 1883, he stated as a law of thought (Denkgesetz) that every set can be well-ordered or, more precisely, that it is always possible to bring any well-defined set into the form of a well-ordered set. Now to call it

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Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong

Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

Axial twist theory

Axial Twist Theory

Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by "Advanced Extraterrestrials"

Sam Altman Says He's Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True

Unix Conspiracy (1991)

Astrophysicists find no 'hair' on black holes

Everything is correlated (2014–23)

Everything Is Correlated

Scientists Can’t Figure Out Why Just Walking In Nature Appears to Quickly Heal Your Brain Rot

The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work

What Medieval People Got Right About Learning (2019)

Why is it worth spending time on type theory? (2013)

Why is it worth spending time on type theory?

Radical New Theory Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Universe

There's an Online Community That Believes the Internet Died in 2016. Here's How AI Fits Into the Picture

The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity

A Century of Quantum Mechanics

New Study Flips Everything We Know About Addiction Upside Down

Oh No, ‘Big Bang Theory’ Is Returning to Literally Destroy the Universe

Time Is Three-Dimensional and Space Is Just a Side Effect, Scientist Says

Spiraling with ChatGPT

This AI Theory Is Sweeping the Internet. Here's What You Need to Know

100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006)

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