⁠Alex Bilzerian
RT @alexbilz: 'Half of a Coin: Negative Probabilities' - Gabor J. Szekely for Wilmott magazine (2005, PDF):
https://t.co/PadBkWyqBQ
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⁠Alex Bilzerian
RT @alexbilz: The only difference between a probabilistic classical world & the equations of the quantum world is that somehow or other it appears as if the probabilities would have to go negative, & that we do not know, as far as I know, how to simulate.
— Feynman
https://t.co/vc0EafWBS5
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⁠Alex Bilzerian
RT @alexbilz: The paradox of poetry and information theory https://t.co/YvLQOSq0yQ

'Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics' - Gábor J. Székely (1984, PDF):
https://t.co/zOp2CYY17P

Having a lot of fun with this one so far. - Alex Bilzerian
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⁠Alex Bilzerian
Espen’s spot on—@Kaju_Nut if you’re struggling, maybe physics isn’t your game.

but with background from strings should u not know about extended probability theories, things discussed in physics and even finance magazines etc 20+ years ago "Khrennikov: It would be natural to compare the Kolmogorov model with the p--adic measure-theoretical model. The main purely mathematical difference is that the only p--adic valued sigma-additive measures defined on sigma-fields are discrete measures. Thus the condition of
sigma-additivity is not so fruitful in
the p--adic case." - Espen Gaarder Haug
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⁠Alex Bilzerian
Negative probabilities are well defined on the mathematical level of rigorousness. https://t.co/2adnhIzqVZ

@JosephNWalker @nntaleb A negative probability (which Taleb discusses here) is the likelihood of learning anything from this word salad - Ben Golub
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⁠Alex Bilzerian
RT @nntaleb: Another fraud, @Kaju_Nut.
Academics and X* don't go well together.

* Formerly Twitter

Among other problems, our Twitter discourse suffers from completely uncharitable readings of people we hate. This physicist is gatekeeping, saying Taleb is wrong for claiming they use negative probabilities in his field. OBVIOUSLY Taleb has this type of thing in mind. https://t.co/Rs2uItg0wd - Robert P. Murphy
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⁠Alex Bilzerian
RT @nntaleb: @BahramShakerin @Kaju_Nut A real scientist does not exhibit such an amount of dishonesty!
Go frame your shit elsewhere
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⁠Alex Bilzerian
'Negative probabilities (which could not be justified by Kolmogorov's model) arise with the strange regularity in practically all quantum models.'

"Just like in quantum mechanics--they use negative probabilities."

No we do not. Probabilities are always positive in quantum mechanics because they are defined as the sum of squares of two real numbers (or the square of the modulus of a complex number), and squares of real numbers are always positive! - Nirmalya Kajuri
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⁠Alex Bilzerian
RT @BobMurphyEcon: Among other problems, our Twitter discourse suffers from completely uncharitable readings of people we hate. This physicist is gatekeeping, saying Taleb is wrong for claiming they use negative probabilities in his field. OBVIOUSLY Taleb has this type of thing in mind. https://t.co/Rs2uItg0wd

"Just like in quantum mechanics--they use negative probabilities."

No we do not. Probabilities are always positive in quantum mechanics because they are defined as the sum of squares of two real numbers (or the square of the modulus of a complex number), and squares of real numbers are always positive! - Nirmalya Kajuri
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⁠Alex Bilzerian
RT @alexbilz: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." — Feynman: https://t.co/EvghqgxTHc https://t.co/PHrhnrG18h
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⁠Alex Bilzerian
There may be some truth to this.

@WKCosmo The problem of string theory is that, 10-20 years ago, young theorists had to skip known physics and jump to strings to get a job. They achieved little. Now the old generation who knows physics and developed strings retires. - Alessandro Strumia
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