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Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT

Adam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift which is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford. We discuss: destroying the light cone with vacuum decay, holographic principle, mining black holes, & what it would take to train LLMs that can make Einstein level conceptual breakthroughs. Stupefying, fascinating, & terrifying. Enjoy! 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/adam-brown * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gF 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐒 * Deepmind, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, partner with Scale for high quality data to fuel post-training Publicly available data is running out - to keep developing smarter and smarter models, labs will need to rely on Scale’s data foundry, which combines subject matter experts with AI models to generate fresh data and break through the data wall. Learn more at https://scale.com/dwarkesh * Jane Street is looking to hire their next generation of leaders. Their deep learning team is looking for ML researchers, FPGA programmers, and CUDA programmers. Summer internships are open for just a few more weeks. If you want to stand out, take a crack at their new Kaggle competition. To learn more, go to https://www.janestreet.com/dwarkesh * This episode is brought to you by Stripe, financial infrastructure for the internet. Millions of companies from Anthropic to Amazon use Stripe to accept payments, automate financial processes and grow their revenue. Learn more at https://stripe.com 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 00:00:00 - Changing the laws of physics 00:26:53 - Why is our universe the way it is 00:38:22 - Making Einstein level AGI 01:01:19 - Physics stagnation and particle colliders 01:12:07 - Hitchhiking 01:29:48 - Nagasaki 01:37:07 - Adam’s career 01:44:18 - Mining black holes 02:00:30 - The holographic principle 02:24:13 - Philosophy of infinities 02:32:30 - Engineering constraints for future civilizations

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December 26, 2024
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2h 44m
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Adam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift which is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford. We discuss: destroying the light cone with vacuum decay, holographic principle, mining black holes, & what it would take to train LLMs that can make Einstein level conceptual breakthroughs. Stupefying, fascinating, & terrifying. Enjoy! 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒

𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐒

• Deepmind, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, partner with Scale for high quality data to fuel post-training Publicly available data is running out - to keep developing smarter and smarter models, labs will need to rely on Scale’s data foundry, which combines subject matter experts with AI models to generate fresh data and break through the data wall. Learn more at https://scale.com/dwarkesh

• Jane Street is looking to hire their next generation of leaders. Their deep learning team is looking for ML researchers, FPGA programmers, and CUDA programmers. Summer internships are open for just a few more weeks. If you want to stand out, take a crack at their new Kaggle competition. To learn more, go to https://www.janestreet.com/dwarkesh

• This episode is brought to you by Stripe, financial infrastructure for the internet. Millions of companies from Anthropic to Amazon use Stripe to accept payments, automate financial processes and grow their revenue. Learn more at https://stripe.com 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 00:00:00 - Changing the laws of physics 00:26:53 - Why is our universe the way it is 00:38:22 - Making Einstein level AGI 01:01:19 - Physics stagnation and particle colliders 01:12:07 - Hitchhiking 01:29:48 - Nagasaki 01:37:07 - Adam’s career 01:44:18 - Mining black holes 02:00:30 - The holographic principle 02:24:13 - Philosophy of infinities 02:32:30 - Engineering constraints for future civilizations

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  • Dwarkesh Patel

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Dwarkesh Podcast, featuring Adam Brown and Dwarkesh Patel, Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT explores vacuum decay, holographic universes, and AI that aces grad physics Dwarkesh Patel and physicist/AI researcher Adam Brown explore the far future of cosmology, including vacuum decay, bubble universes, and whether advanced civilizations could alter the cosmological constant to escape heat death.

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