What are some major beliefs where we know some or all of the options but aren’t sure which is the correct one?
Examples
P != NP or P=NP
Savannah ape or aquatic ape?
Shakespeare wrote the plays or someone else did
Bicameral mind: true or false
Oumuamua: alien or not
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I think dark matter is an artifact of the physics being wrong like ether or phlogiston
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So all physics are wrong? suggests only around 100 even study quantum physics at that depth and only some portion of those on this problem.
Needs another new abstraction layer to explain, like how the atomic model unlocked so many?
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The next layer of physics probably won’t be human-knowable, like how the operations of alphaZero aren’t knowable.
Outputs maybe, but internals, no.
To solve dark matter we need dark algorithms.
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I think that equals not knowable at all
I’m not that pessimistic. Might just take us say 100y to understand what takes the AI 1y
a related one : speed of light -constant or not?
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