Physicist explains black holes | Guillaume Verdon and Lex Fridman

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Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement.
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Full podcast episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpeodpWBf9SBmLc Lex Fridman podcast channel: kzbin.info Guest bio: Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement.

[@ScottLovenberg]

Software engineer here : you can't use AI or machine learning for things you fundamentally don't understand since you've got to annotate the model for the algorithm to know what is valid/correct. I don't know what quantum machine learning is, but quantum isn't magic; it just solves certain kinds of problems quickly and then a regular computer can validate the result (it's faster to validate than find solutions - this is how async cryptography works). I can't tell if he's just throwing words at the wall, but I don't see how AI, ML or quantum gets him any further in his quest. If anyone can connect some dots I'm not seeing, please do enlighten me. I'm half curious.

[@avvery8593]

I doubt he intends to accomplish all his goals with current ML or even computation architectures.

[@jonathanseale3791]

This guy just earned his degree in 2022 in applied mathematics. It shows that he’s not a physicist and he appears to overestimate his understanding of physics concepts. Having watched a number of these clips, he gets a lot of things fundamentally wrong about black holes, thermodynamics, quantum theory, and more.

[@Kwisatz_HaderachXIII]

Makes me happy to see people not just blindly accept things said because it’s on a popular podcast. It genuinely depresses me how many “physics” KZbin channels there are that are flat out wrong or give misinformation and people just eat it up and believe everything. Don’t even get me started on all the alien/ufo videos.

[@Allyourheroswenttohell]

​@@Kwisatz_HaderachXIII all you had to say was "freemasons."

[@Allyourheroswenttohell]

​@@jedidarksidefreemason

[@joshb7415]

He has a PhD in physics, he is also a leading researcher on AI and Quantum computing, what are you talking about

[@owenskel4804]

Applied mathematics is physics And applied physics is engineering

[@charlesblithfield6182]

I don’t know why it affected me as such but seeing L Susskind’s proof that adding a single photon (wavelength less that the BH radius) to a black hole increases it’s surface area by one square Planck unit led me to a lot of thinking and inquiry. It seems so fundamental and profound in how it may lead to new ways of thinking about the structure of the universe.

[@maskcode]

My brain is smooth, much smoother than yours. Care to explain what you just said?

[@ralffig3297]

Thus guy is a master bullshiter. Lex went from Bezos to this in one interview. That s what I call entangled interviews.

[@joshkoslow4695]

English please?

[@rezadaneshi]

Interesting topic. Interesting thought- Can you imagine going through a black hole at light speed (I know, but it’s a hypothetical with a point) only to find out it wasn’t there and everything we visually detected at it’s event horizon and measurements of it’s gravitational pull, were all the information of that last fraction of time it became a black hole, just frozen in time to us in time dilation as the observers; and every time it got bigger, it time travelled and updated that last fraction of the second as if that was its size to begin with.

[@rezadaneshi]

@@user-rd8vm3lh2p then psilocybin is the black hole of string theory and god all mighty

[@samuel-zj1np]

The black hole itself (where the mass is) is the singularity on the inside, therefore all the space between the center and the event horizon still exist, but its an area where we cant see anything there or what would be behind as as all the information converges to the singularity, and everything that gets to the event horizon from the outside perspective it is as if time stops, but from the viewer going through they'd experience the pull from the singularity (we just dont know what's beyond the event horizon)

[@rezadaneshi]

@@samuel-zj1np Maybe black holes are a doorway that we can donate our particles to some other universe’s laws of physics with its own NDA. I think it’s time someone should speak up for all the dead time travelers.

[@Allyourheroswenttohell]

​@@user-rd8vm3lh2pyeah man... weed makes you go to a different planet smh. I'm from a galxy far far away.

[@rezadaneshi]

@@Allyourheroswenttohell nothing wrong with firing up if you get a sense of humor afterwards. True story, I took my space suit helmet off and tossed it aside jumping up and down hollering I’m here I’m here once when I was lost and only too late to realize Mara has no breathable atmosphere. Mars. I’m currently on mars. Sounds to me like you cant find the box you were initially trying to think yourself out of asking questions till you got lost.) Smoke signal?

[@rezadaneshi]

A Physicist answering a black hole question discussing his duality about how he feels about singularity. What are the odds?

[@oval856]

Physicist

[@evanpatterson432]

*Vaush explains black holes

[@ThexBorg]

I like to think of black holes as Quantum Stars.

[@smithtorreysmith]

That’s awesome.

[@rezadaneshi]

Maybe black holes are a doorway that we can donate our particles to some other universe’s laws of physics with its own NDA. I think it’s time someone should speak up for all the dead time travelers.

[@baroondash7045]

Black holes have infinite gravity so even light cannot come out. As the scientist rightly said theory of entanglement where one particles falls into black hole and it's partner particle goes away from black hole which may give all the information

[@mrt445]

When this guy explains anything he waffles so much you forget what he was trying to explain in the first place.

[@samcerulean1412]

I think people are just too dumb to follow along

[@rastavillain9185]

ahahaha

[@rezadaneshi]

Wow, I think Guillaume should speak for all the dead time travelers scattered in their self fulfilled singularities since he was caught prepared as ever not to talk about science. Exactly

[@keithmoon2718]

He's actually incredibly deliberate with his words. But does use a lot of technical lingo. So not appropriate for all listeners.

[@TrueMexico]

@@samcerulean1412 This podcast is for a dumb mass audience who are still interested in these topics. This talk was more like some webinar for some university course.

[@mitchblackmore5230]

Is there an English translation of this? 😆

[@RobertBowerNexus]

The intellectual gymnastics in, around and across this topic seems to be nothing more than cognitive mathemagical postulation for which one gets paid to do knowing there will never be an answer using the science/physics models of today.

[@jasonlandonai6670]

Yes lol they love to tell you about how black holes may work but can't define a "field" or explain how a simple magnet works.

[@JasonMitchellofcompsci]

What is the opposite of Jeff Bezos? Buff Jesos.

[@i_dont_live_here]

I dono, I’d wanna set up shop 💀❤️

[@CyberKerby]

i would take a vessel and just go in straight line for as long i can in space and see how far i could go !

[@KWally]

Finally someone who has a positive outlook on the future

[@joshselkovits466]

His glasses and beard kinda looks like a disguise

[@abgportal]

This guy slays

[@romansandalic-yh2ok]

Interesting

[@romansandalic-yh2ok]

But nobody knows what is god or creator.

[@Anomaly66666]

I am God the creator and you are co creaters too.​@@romansandalic-yh2ok

[@bucko4597]

So, a black hole starts big, and in the process goes through Relativity, or is going through relativity, and then one must travel through the realm of quantum mechanics, or is a black hole in quantum mechanics? Or am I lost....I asking about the literal process from a very big star, crunching down....

[@darthstarone3532]

💪🧐🎸 KILLA 🎸👻

[@jimmicrackhead12]

🥱

[@mrt445]

This guy is possibly the dullest guest he's had on this show. I'm a few clips in thinking why am I even listening to this guy.

[@RoyBrown777]

And the worst communicator and I blame Lex, he just nods along and pretends to understand it's a totally up themselves interview. @@mrt445

[@dnadnadna743]

oh its DR. WEIR... ha ha ha

[@dasshape00]

I.must be a dumb ass. I don't understand any of this. 😂

[@RoyBrown777]

Lex Friedman has a podcast with the worst communicator the world has ever known.

[@unodos149]

Everybody talks like they know so much about black holes. Black holes are today's edge of the sea. Just like nobody actually fell off the edge of the world, eventually we will find that black holes don't "destroy" what goes inside, it just goes somewhere else. Whenever there is lack of data, folks always build an assumption where that lack of data shapes the universe. Better to just admit, yeah, this part we have no clue about so i could pull a thought from my a$s or you a thought from your a$s, either are possibly true lol

[@Th3rdknight]

Mind blown. I have been in Kenya for the last 4 months and the gulf btw cognitive evolution btw nations is incomprehensible. Yet, homo sapiens must find a way forward together. I travelled to Conrad's most horrifying images of Africa and have lost faith in mankind. I know there is a God and I call to Christ, but the Eacc movement gives a name to that which I always thought was our purpose. To me all God's lead to the same place- I simply choose my totem and follow as best I can his teaching and seek truth. I ask Christ to help us achieve the goals of Eaac but also for my own selfish prosperity. Anyway surely thank Christ for people like Lex and Guillaume Verdon or whoever share this vision. But I fear our ascension up the K scale must be preceded by another bloodbath globally since we are seeing the death throes of 2 corrupt empires in Russia and China. God help all humanity and let us realize our potential or go gently into that good night.

[@moisesespiritosanto2195]

Hi, I'm from São Paulo! ABRAÇO!

[@viziobehringer3633]

👎

[@Ljosi]

Warning: 140+ IQ required to understand 0:15 to 1:20

[@andymartin8840]

Is this guy talking gibberish or am I that stupid?

[@auggieaxiom5726]

How to say a lot and say nothing

[@mrt445]

Exactly

[@TrueMexico]

If Lex only interviewed people like this guy, his channel would probably have 6k subs. Ok the interviewee, he's super smart - but a terrible communicator.

[@EK-fy5yy]

Sorry but disagree ❤

[@rod6189]

Strongly agree. This guy will only be an average filler in science. Doesn't have the spark to reach far.

[@keithmoon2718]

Strongly disagree. This guy is an expert science communicator

[@jessewallace12able]

Totally disagree. He’s intelligent to the level where his communication takes some paying attention to.

[@TrueMexico]

@@jessewallace12able You are probs much smarter than me with this stuff... but for the mass audience this guy sucked.