This would have to scale down to the quantum domain to be an actual thing and scaling back up means we bring non-commutative physics into the classical world.
I was actually thinking of the engineering-minded people who experiment with permanent magnet electric motors out of intuition. The bit about free energy was hyperbole of mine.
I'm trying to decide if we are intentionally 'translating' these ideas from pure imagination down into technological applications through intermediate 'realms' of quasi-reality, or if building stuff with just intuition can still be accepted in the 21st century. The BS is just piled too high for me and my trust in technology is not great. Sometimes I wonder if we are just having a mass psychosis in a field of mud.
It makes you question what they mean by discovery. Is it not a discovery until it is published in Nature? On Arxiv this was a discovery in 2021. We can probably find a free energy channel in the YouTube haystack from a decade ago where the guy happened to arrange magnets in this order while going through permutations. Is that discovery or are only incumbent academics allowed to canonize science?
I think 1/10 is incredible. If it holds up it means they may have found the right prior for a path of development that can actually lead to artificial general intelligence. With exponential improvement; humans learning to hack the AI and the AI learning better suggestions, this may in theory happen very quickly.
We live in a very small corner of the space of possible universes, which is why finding a prior in program space within it is a big deal.
I think those are the distance metrics, which is what produces inductive bias, which is the core essence of what we consider 'intelligence'. - Consider a more complicated metric like a graph distance with a bit of interesting topology. That metric is the unit by which the feature space is uniformly reduced. Things which are not linearized by the metric are considered noise, so this forms a heuristic which overlooks features which may have been in reality salient. - This makes it an inductive bias.
(Some call me heterodox, I prefer 'original thinker'.)
This would have to scale down to the quantum domain to be an actual thing and scaling back up means we bring non-commutative physics into the classical world.