In the podcast between Adam Brown and Dwarkesh Patel, Adam expressed a perhaps unreasonable amount of optimism about the feasibility of vaccuum decay and also claimed that there were likely a large number of metastable states that could be intentionally induced. I’d be interested to hear a critique of Adam’s position
We’d also like to see this debated more. Getting expert participation is already challenging on a simple survey, but we’re hoping that publishing this will prompt skeptics (and believers) to more publicly articulate their arguments.
In the podcast between Adam Brown and Dwarkesh Patel, Adam expressed a perhaps unreasonable amount of optimism about the feasibility of vaccuum decay and also claimed that there were likely a large number of metastable states that could be intentionally induced. I’d be interested to hear a critique of Adam’s position
(“Optimism” is an unusual way to describe it :)
We’d also like to see this debated more. Getting expert participation is already challenging on a simple survey, but we’re hoping that publishing this will prompt skeptics (and believers) to more publicly articulate their arguments.