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The uncertainty in the location of the pinball grows by a factor of about 5 every time the ball collides with one of the disks. After 12 bounces, an initial uncertainty in position the size of an atom grows to be as large as the disks themselves. Since you cannot measure the location of a pinball with more than atom-scale precision, it is in principle impossible to predict the motion of a pinball as it bounces between the disks for more than 12 bounces.

Every survey respondent’s guess about the future, lined up by expectation of the worst.

ChatGPT had unusually fast user growth, but it did not set a record.

Birds see magnetic fields using quantum mechanical spin states in their retina. Whole Bird Emulation requires much higher resolution than you might expect.

Ten angles on AI strategy

AI’s relationship with us will not be like our relationship with ants