It seems that social media is still abuzz about the unusual claim(s) made by a local professor and has not died down (I'm tired of reading the posts when they appear on my wall). One comment goes even to the poiint of invoking Judgement Day for those who are supporting the said professor (I do not have such confidence in facing Allah swt with omperfect deeds). My position is the same: debate within academic circles and not social media (including the said professsor). Something seems to be wrong about how academia is, if these do not suffice.
Knowing full well how toxic social media (and back-biting) can be, I have decided not to do any rewrite my post on Mostaque's ideas for a magazine publication (just saw that there is a NotebookLM version which I hope to check out). I was made to become aware of 'AI experts' ridiculing others who probably wanted to venture into the field amateurishly. Note that my own post is not so much on the AI matrials but more on the ideas of physics underlying some of Mostaque's ideas. However, critiques or even insults are the least of my worries. The bigger worry is that the book 'The Last Economy' is really about economic phase transition due to widespread of AI tools. My only encounter with economics is when I was teaching Applied Calculus at XMUM for economic sciences students. So I dug out the books of Silberberg and Takayama, thinking I would read it for some reason.
I got particularly lost when Mostaque suggested the solution of the dual currency system, the foundation coins and culture credits. I know nothing about bitcoins and crypto-currencies. Thus, in my post, I do not dare touch these topics. Certainly there is a yearning to read more on this but it will probably take me a long time for me to digest the topic. Then I remembered about Svozil mentioning the problem of money when he was here for EQuaLS, but at the time we wanted to focus on quantum foundation ideas. He has an article in arXiv about this, which I showed to my family (hoping to stir some interest in the problem of money and later on cyptocurrency). My reading of the article (perhaps my interest is not here) is rather slow. The next step is perhaps to find a simple book on blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Thus, my understanding of Mostaque's dual currency system is probably a long way off. But there are other things which I have not understood. For instance, there is a Lagrangian given in Appendix A Part II whose form is not quite in the form of difference of 'energies'. Supposing that the optimization problem of an objective function is the same as action extremizing principle, it doesn't quite correspond to what I know as in physics. I did try to search the literature (within economics) if action or Lagrangian approach has been used, but the ones I got have different formulations. Sort of gave up at the moment.
Thus, my decision not to have another rewrite until I can understand at least partially what is going on. Today, I saw another podccast with Mostaque that had some verbal details of his ideas but I really wanted a written technical paper that I could read and digest. In the podcast, this is the second time, he raised the idea of wave-particle duality. Need more details of how he think about this, but I have always maintained this is simply due to configuration variable whose conjugate variables involving time derivatives (which I implicitly mention in my post about the flow). However, in this particular case, there seems to be no reason for incompressibility of the phase space volume (needed for an uncertainty principle). So for now, I will wait for more details and hence save me from possible ridicules for now.
Family matters: My son Izhar has moved out from his place in Shah Alam (losing the deposit due to broken contract) and set up his 'office' in his room at home.
He will probably travel to work from home now.
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