Max Tegmark

“Why doesn’t the Moon fall down?”

— Max Tegmark

“more than it already did.”

— Max Tegmark

“das Ding an sich.”

— Max Tegmark

“Scientific American called “100 Years of Quantum Mysteries,”

— Max Tegmark

“Richard Feynman hailed “distrust of experts” as a cornerstone of science,”

— Max Tegmark

“What’s the wavelength of the 21-centimeter line?”)”

— Max Tegmark

“Aristarchos simply divided it by 3.7 and got the size of the Moon!”

— Max Tegmark

“arguing that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure,”

— Max Tegmark

“In short, redness and self-awareness are both qualia.”

— Max Tegmark

“the circumference must be about 794 km × 360°/7.2° ≈ 39,700 km,”

— Max Tegmark

“Consider all observer moments in all of spacetime.”

— Max Tegmark

“Clearly, if atoms can be assembled to make humans, the laws of physics also permit the construction of vastly more advanced forms…

— Max Tegmark

“the whole can contain less information than the sum of its parts—and sometimes even less than one of its parts!”

— Max Tegmark

“All this requires life to undergo a final upgrade, to Life 3.0, which can design not only its software but also its hardware.”

— Max Tegmark

“When you have the world’s first superintelligent AI working for you, you’re better off investing in your own companies than in those…

— Max Tegmark

“Indeed, the best experts for performing such diagnosis may soon be AI systems, given the rapid progress in computer vision and deep…

— Max Tegmark

“Why do we perceive the world as stable and ourselves as local and unique? Here’s my guess: because it’s useful.”

— Max Tegmark

“multiverse elements are four-dimensional spacetimes, whereas “creation” is of course only a meaningful notion within a spacetime.”

— Max Tegmark

“For simplicity, this cartoon ignores both the expansion of space and two of the three space dimensions.”

— Max Tegmark

“At times, Larry accused Elon of being “specieist”: treating certain life forms as inferior just because they were silicon-based rather than carbon-based.”

— Max Tegmark

“In short, computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it’s not the particles but the pattern that really…

— Max Tegmark

“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the…

— Max Tegmark

“space has. If the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis is correct, then our Universe is a mathematical structure, and from its description, an infinitely…

— Max Tegmark

“The consensus reality isn’t free from some shared illusions relative to the external reality, as we’ll elaborate on below: for example, cats,…

— Max Tegmark

“We could retain our families, friends and broader communities, and all activities that give us meaning and purpose, hopefully having lost nothing…

— Max Tegmark

“Neural networks have now transformed both biological and artificial intelligence, and have recently started dominating the AI subfield known as machine learning…

— Max Tegmark

“The term “AGI” was popularized by the AI researchers Shane Legg, Mark Gubrud and Ben Goertzel to more specifically mean human-level artificial…

— Max Tegmark

“How could space not be infinite? How could an infinite space get created in a finite time? What’s our Universe expanding into?…

— Max Tegmark

“Please hold your hand up at arm’s length and check which things around you can be blocked from view by your pinkie.…

— Max Tegmark

“It’s we humans who introduce these concepts and the words for them: in principle, everything could have been derived from the fundamental…

— Max Tegmark

“Just as your spatial-reality model gives you the subjective feeling of looking at a three-dimensional space even though your mind is actually…

— Max Tegmark

“The robot misconception is related to the myth that machines can’t control humans. Intelligence enables control: humans control tigers not because we’re…

— Max Tegmark

“If you increase the number of space dimensions beyond three, there can be neither stable solar systems nor stable atoms. For instance,…

— Max Tegmark

“The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of how a…

— Max Tegmark

“THE BOTTOM LINE •  Parallel universes are not a theory, but a prediction of certain theories. •  Eternal inflation predicts that our Universe (the…

— Max Tegmark

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

— Max Tegmark

The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask

— Max Tegmark

In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

— Max Tegmark

“the entropy of an isolated system never decreases,”

— Max Tegmark

“I view the measure problem as the greatest crisis in physics today.”

— Max Tegmark