4 papers
Putting Pressure Under Pressure: On the Status of Classical Pressure in Special Relativity
Eugene Y. S. Chua
Much of the century-old debate surrounding the status of thermodynamics in relativity has centered on the search for a suitably relativistic temperature; recent works by Chua (2023…
Looking for Work in Quantum Thermodynamics
Eugene Y. S. Chua
This paper diagnoses a much-discussed problem in quantum thermodynamics, that of generalizing classical work into the quantum domain. I begin with the no-go theorem of Perarnau-Llo…
The Problem of Atypicality in LLM-Powered Psychiatry
Bosco Garcia, Eugene Y. S. Chua, Harman Singh Brah
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly proposed as scalable solutions to the global mental health crisis. But their deployment in psychiatric contexts raises a distinctive e…
Not Quite Killing It: Black Hole Evaporation, Global Energy, and De-Idealization
Eugene Y. S. Chua
A family of arguments for black hole evaporation relies on conservation laws, defined through symmetries represented by Killing vector fields which exist globally or asymptotically…