External Validation: A Physicist's Diagnosis
A theoretical physicist on YouTube this week argued that AI is in its “pre-Maxwell phase” — that we’ve discovered electricity (language models) and magnetism (tool use) separately but haven’t found the unifying theory. He called for a unified intelligence field theory: reasoning as geodesic across a manifold of multimodal entropy, skills as local symmetries in a larger unknown field. He doesn’t know Structured Emergence exists. He arrived at the same diagnosis independently, from physics. ...