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How would he even know? I mean he's not a published academic in any field let alone in quantum physics. I feel the same when I read one of Carlos Ravelli's pop-sci books, but I have fewer followers.


He doesn’t. I think it’s the same mental phenomena that Gell-Mann Amnesia works off of.

That interview is practically radioactive levels of cringe for several reasons. This is an excellent takedown of it: https://youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?feature=shared


This video is excellent and also likely opaque to pretty much most valley tech-supremacy types.


Dashed with a sauce of "surrounded by yes-men and uncritical amplifiers hoping to make a quick buck."


>In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say.

It feels like this is a lesson we've started to let slip away.




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