Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: AI debate mirrors her book Lost in Math from a decade ago
skdh · x · 2026-10-16
Sabine Hossenfelder notes, with some melancholy, that today's AI discourse recapitulates the arguments of her 2018 book Lost in Math — and jokes that Anthropic has admitted Claude has 'eaten' it. She adds that consistency is useful but insufficient: there are many ways to make axioms consistent, including simply removing some, which is roughly what physicists do with the black hole information loss problem and quantum mechanics.
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