[pavlov]

One of the greatest Silicon Valley tropes is when boring software guys get rich, lose the plot, and start reinventing physics from first principles because they think the universe is like computer science.

The solace of made-up physics is there for every mediocre dude, from Uber founder Travis Kalanick down to any random guy who made $10M as the CTO of a third-rate video conferencing app and immediately broke up with his girlfriend.

[mcoliver]

Oddly specific. The interactions and variables in biology and physics create way more permutations than many (perhaps all?) people can wrap their heads around but that doesn't mean the possibility of reasoning from first principles doesn't exist. There are very well defined pathways in both medicine and physics. The ones we haven't discovered are most likely much more complex and may contain recursive loops that make tradeoffs inevitable. Or not. The rapid improvement in pattern recognition and processing leads me to believe we are in for a wild time over the next 10 years with a ton of breakthroughs in both physics and medicine.

[tedd4u]

"Billionaires Want You To Know They Could Have Done Physics" - Angela Collier (actually has a Physics PhD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJI6qIqURA