“Subtle is the Lord. Also from Imre Lakatos, The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes. The way it's told is that Michelson-Morley proved that the ether did not exist.”
Books mentioned in Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us
From Dwarkesh Podcast · 2026-04-07
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“They are just as sane as the Principia if their whole matter and purpose were not magical. They were nearly all composed during the same 25 years of his mathematical studies."”
“So Principia Mathematica is released in 1687. The Origin of Species is released in 1859. At least naively, it seems like Darwin's theory of natural selection is conceptually”
“I think it was Knuth in the preface to The Art of Computer Programming who says something like it.”
“wrote a very important book about quantum mechanics and was deeply interested in it. He could have invented quantum computing at that time,”
“textbook about the field. "Mike and Ike" is the definitive textbook on quantum information. You presumably came in after Deutsch. But you in the '90s somehow identified”