We are becoming aware of an infinite dimensional world. Everything is changing faster and faster.
1. Are we going to finally rip out the guts of the federal bureaucracy? Well easier said than done. Yet, hold on, it may happen. It will happen. In fact many existing social and economic structures will be torn apart, essentially destroyed and replaced by more efficient and successful structures.
2. DOGE is just one of many emergent properties occurring in this AI renaissance. The destruction machine for antiquated bureaucracies that cost far more than what they are worth.
3. The GSEs are prime examples of these antiquated bureaucracies.
4. Quantum Mechanics says that time is really an illusion, it doesn't really exist. Yes the world changes, but without a changing world there is no time. That is time emerges as a kind of pseudo property from the changing world. But across the universe, time here is not time there. Time even if measured with some kind of atomic clock is relative to the location of the atomic clock. But that is not really descriptive. Time is not another dimension. It REALLY does not exist. There is a set of physical events in an ongoing chain reaction, that just happens. at one point we have a molecule H2O, it is undergoing exposure to heat and at some threshold the molecule splits into 2 Hydrogen molegules and 1 Oxygen molecule. This should be seen as one state followed by another state, where we are overlaying this synthetic, non-real property of time. But, again, time is not real. It is just a concept.
5. And we live next to parallel worlds. That's how that Quantum Chip with its many Qubits is so fast. It is splitting computation between parallel worlds that magically communicate through superposition and entrapment.
6. If people can't keep up with AI, and that is, well, - a question of time - then they will not be able to catch up with each other. The world disassembles itself. Social structures disappear. What emerges are isolated communities of individuals with their own social structures, philosophies, science and even time.
6. So, where we go. Academia is turning out too many PhDs. Professors need them to write their papers. If you want to be a full professor in a good university, you need to publish at least two substantial papers a year. To be really good, you may need to produce 7 or 8 a year - and for that you need a team of PhD candidates. After the professor is done with them, he throws them away. Mercilessly.
7. So, where do all these PhDs go? Oh, they can't find work. At least not work they would be interested in. They probably will eventually get swallowed up by new AI.
8. And if there were not enough parallel worlds, now it looks like we will just start getting a lot more.
9. Curt Jaimungal, Sabine Hosselfelder with clips from Sean Carroll:
