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[W]e've repeatedly underestimated not only the size of our cosmos, but also the power of our human mind to understand it.

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Max Tegmark (born May 5, 1967) is a Swedish-American physicist, cosmologist and machine learning researcher. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute. He is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute and a supporter of the effective altruism movement, and has received research grants from Elon Musk to investigate existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence.

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Alternative Names: Tegmark • Max Shapiro • Max Erik Tegmark

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As the ancient Greeks replaced myth-based explanations with mechanistic models of the Solar System, their emphasis shifted from asking why to asking how.

"Я помню, как на лекции по квантовой механике Юджин Комминс с серьезным лицом произнес: "Это называется уравнением Клейна-Гордона, поскольку его открыл Шредингер"."

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. — Confucius The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. — Wayne Dyer

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