"Sorry, the reference to Sabine Hossenfelder’s views on beauty was just to get you to click on the post and hope you would read the interesting content here. I’m not about to host a discussion of this topic here now."
so... thanks for the click-bait, i guess...?
> Sabine says:
> November 12, 2024 at 12:35 am
> Well played, Peter, certainly got me to click.
> [...]
Pretty sure I've seen her comment on there before in friendly fashion when she is referenced. (Yes, I have, for example: [1], [2].)
Woit's second paragraph is pretty explicit about the title, you don't need to dive into the comment to get the picture:
> Actually, the title and first paragraph above are basically just clickbait. Inspired by the class I’m teaching, I wanted to write something to advertise a certain point of view about quantum mechanics, but I figured no one would read it. Picking a fight with her and her 1.5 million subscribers seems like a promising way to deal with that problem. After a while, I’ll change the title to something more appropriate like “Representations of Lie algebras and Quantization”.
1: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13907
2: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13864&cpage...