What podcasts say about Carlo Rovelli
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What Carlo Rovelli has said on podcasts
30 statements · 17 positive · 9 negative · 4 neutral
Quantum mechanics shows that objective reality is wrong.
“In fact, I think it's wrong, and I think that's what quantum mechanics is telling us.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 2:48
Quantum mechanics is reliable and practically usable.
“quantum mechanics is solid. We know how to use it.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 15:50
Scientists cannot explain what happens inside quantum computers.
“Even in a quantum computer, we don't know really what happens inside.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 16:38
A quantum particle exists meaningfully only through its interactions.
“The particle is just its interactions.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 27:36
Humanity will eventually understand quantum phenomena.
“Yes, I do. I do because historically, Every time we have found something strange, it seemed totally incomprehensible at first. And then we get used to it and we start learning.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 27:41
Time near a black hole passes far slower than on Earth.
“if you go near a black hole, it's colossal. Okay? You go near a black hole, you wait a little bit, you wait 10 seconds, 10 minutes there, you come back, it's 100 years passed on Earth.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 33:41
Mass slows the passage of time.
“Mass has a property of slowing down time.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 36:11
Consciousness is not fundamentally mysterious.
“I don't think there is a great mystery here.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 41:12
Consciousness could in principle be described by physics.
“in principle, it could be described by physics”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 43:31
Digital systems could potentially achieve human-like consciousness.
“I don't think there's anything magic in humans that cannot happen in a digital system, first. So yes, they could be conscious in a possible sense of consciousness.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 50:56
Claude is highly intelligent in some sense.
“Claude is very intelligent. Claude, the AI system. In some sense, they're very intelligent, no doubt.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 51:27
AI systems should be regulated and controlled.
“I think these things should be regulated. I think there should be some control.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 52:51
Most current AI investment is directed toward military applications.
“Today, majority of money that goes into AI is for military-related things”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 54:24
Combining AI, nuclear weapons, and human rivalry risks disaster.
“That seems to me a recipe for disaster.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 55:31
Defending US military dominance risks a third world war.
“either to defend its absolute dominance, military dominance, as it's doing together, and that the risk is a Third World War, a huge conflict.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 1:07:36
A 5% global military-spending reduction could address climate change and poverty.
“If you just reduce by, I don't know, 5% these military expenses globally altogether, not changing the balance of power, the amounts of resources liberated would be enormous, colossal, sufficient for solving climate change, for giving jobs to everybody, for raising— taking away poverty.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 1:13:23
International collaboration produces better outcomes than competition.
“If we collaborate, we do better than if we compete.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 1:27:16
The military-industrial complex has strong incentives to promote war.
“The power of the military complex, it's colossal and it has an interest in making war.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 1:27:52
The United States has waged wars globally and killed millions since World War II.
“Since the end of the Second World War, it has waged war all over the planet without ever being attacked and has probably killed something between 5 and 10 million peoples in wars all around.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 1:30:36
Loop quantum gravity offers a solution to combining quantum mechanics and general relativity.
“the theory me and my friends have come out with, it's called loop quantum gravity. It's a way of solving this problem.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 1:57:59
The universe likely existed before the Big Bang and underwent a bounce.
“if I had to bet now, I'm not sure, but I would bet for the second one. From the equations, that seems to be what was the case.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 2:00:22
Primordial black holes plausibly seeded early galaxies.
“I think it's more plausible that there were primordial black holes that gave rise to these early galaxies.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 2:01:44
Black holes could function as shortcuts to the distant future.
“if you jump into a black hole, in a short time frame, For you, you're going to jump out billions of years in the future.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 2:07:58
Hikers should respect wilderness regulations and avoid going alone.
“sometimes it's not a bad idea to respect regulation because there was a regulation, but don't go alone.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 2:24:25
Humans and mammals can communicate readily through emotions and intentions without language.
“we communicate very easily. It's completely reading each other's emotions and each other's intention, each other's attitude.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 2:32:40
War likely emerged recently rather than being present throughout human evolution.
“I tend to think that war is recent because a lot of Most of the communities on earth which live hunting-gathering, they don't go to war.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 2:35:01
Groups go to war when they can steal accumulated resources from another group.
“You only go to war with another group if there is some accumulated resources you can steal.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 2:35:18
Civilization has strongly reduced human violence.
“it means that civilization, which is recent stuff with respect to, has had a very strong pacifying effect on us.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 2:41:24
Learning collaboration’s benefits could continue developing further.
“maybe that process of learning that there is an advantage in collaboration is something that can go that can develop more.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 2:41:45
Humanity can create a better world with improved coexistence.
“to create a better world where we can live together better.”
Open the episode · #2554 - Carlo RovelliListen at 2:42:04
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