[photonthug]

> You also can't translate .. into Hellenistic Greek or some modern indigenous languages because there isn't enough shared context; you'd need to give humans speaking those languages a glossary for any of the translation to make sense

What? By substitution, this means you can translate it. As long as we're assuming a large enough basis of concept vectors of course it works.

> I'd say our current largest LLMs probably contain sufficient detail to explain a concept like a named race horse starting from QCD+gravity and ending up at cultural human events

What? I'm curious how you'd propose to move from gravity to culture. This is like TFAs assertion that the M+B game might be as expressive as 20 questions / universal. M or B is just (bad,sentient) or (good,object). Sure, entangling a few concepts is slightly more expressive than playing with a completely flattened world of 1/0 due to some increase in dimensionality. But trying to pinpoint anything like (neutral,concept) fails because the basis set isn't fundamentally large enough. Any explanation of how this could work will have to cheat, like when TFA smuggles new information in by communicating details about distance-from-basis. For example to really get to the word or concept of "neutral" from inferred good/bad dichotomy of bread/mussolini, you would have to answer "Hmmmmmm, closer to bread I guess" in one iteration and then "Umm.. closer to Mussolini I guess" when asked again, and then have the interrogator notice the uncertainty/hesitation/contradiction and then infer neutrality. This is just the simple case.. physics to culture seems much harder

[edwardbernays]

I completely believe that physics to culture is intractable given our current corpus, to the degree it's probably a nonsense claim. There are so many emergent phenomena that introduce confounding effects at every level of abstraction.

Also, why QCD? Quantum chromodynamics, the quantized theory of the nuclear strong force? There is also QED, quantum electrodynamics, which is the quantized field theory for electrodynamics, and then also QFD (quantum flavordynamics) for the weak force. Does OP seriously mean to imply that the quantum field theory corresponding to ONLY the strong force, plus gravity, explains every emergent phenomena from there to culture? Fully half of the fundamental forces we account for, in two disparate theoretical frameworks?

OP's comment is not serious speculation.