alt Hacker NewsIs there any obvious path from these results to any sort of physics, chemistry, or biology breakthrough? From what I can tell: no (but I lack the physics and chemistry expertise to say anything about the QCD finding).
Turning the question arouhnd: what would be the most impactful thing for OpenAI or Anthropic to do to show large breakthroughs?
From the physics, not without more breakthroughs, and even then I can't imagine what that would look like. The particle physics that you can use industrially has long been understood, and the field has long been long stuck because the only things we don't understand are also insanely expensive to experimentally access. Maybe once we move up the Kardashev scale, though.
ETH sounds more like there's a path it could become important? In general, the recent complexity results suggest that a) our intuitions about that world are unreliable, and b) the truth seems to be insanely complicated. I mean, new faster multiplication algorithms in 2026, what the hell? How can we say anything about the full space of all possible algorithms?