What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said about Chain theory

Wissner-Gross says chain theory is falsifiable through upcoming precision measurements of the fine-structure constant.

“There will be, I think, experimental tests potentially in the next few months, potentially next couple of years to actually go and measure”

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Wissner-Gross believes all free parameters of the Standard Model may be derivable from chain theory.

“it looks plausible that every single free parameter of the standard model could fall out of this”

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Wissner-Gross states that current AI could not have produced chain theory on its own and required heavy human steering.

“superintelligence is not at the point yet, at least superintelligence that I have access to, where it appears to be capable on its own of arriving at something like chain theory”

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