I don't know if this will happen in math, but in other fields where computers have outstripped humans (chess and poker, for instance), there's been a loss of creativity, but there have also been other forms of…
No matter how cheap it is, people will never be able to come anywhere close to affording what giant corporations can.
omg this is brilliant i was IMMEDIATELY tilting my face off
i was talking to opus the other night about the polio vaccine related stuff (i had been arguing with one of those people who claims the polio vaccine didn't work so i figured i'd use it as an excuse to brush up on some…
i think there are a few reasons. - lean proofs are hard, and a lot of the time there is so much mathematical machinery that folks are working on that you would need to not only prove your result, but also all of the…
lol yeah we're doomed
i can kinda get how a glp-1 can be a miracle drug for weight: if we assume that simple molecular fixes to problems will eventually be found by evolution, then when we change our environment rapidly (e.g., with cheap…
these might not be 100% complete, but i think this does a reaaalllly good job at capturing the vast majority of mathematics. i'm sure you could come up with another breakdown, but these also have the benefit of tracking…
agreed! it's funny, i'm returning to some of the maths i studied in undergrad with a bit more "worldly" knowledge (if you can call comp sci academia knowledge "worldly"), and i'm seeing that so so much of the stuff that…
yeah, i've studied a lot of math and a lot of cs, and stats is tough. part of the problem is the terminology, and just giving a ton of complex machinery without telling you what it's actually doing. i've never learned…
i mean, the headline statistic can be misleading, but you gotta dig in and wrestle with the details. just like anything, we cannot boil down complex things to single numbers and expect any sort of meaningful signal. we…
> At the time, my professor closed the final lecture with dramatic words (I'm paraphrasing slightly): >>> And now you've learned that almost all interesting problems are undecidable and of the remaining ones, almost all…
is it?
I think I'd put it this way: if I could flip a switch tomorrow and the AI boom was done, I probably would. The negative effects just super duper outweigh the fact that coders are more efficient. But since it exists, I'm…
there are some things that clearly exist that are really hard to nail down with definitions; once we get into anything social, we are kinda playing with that territory. everything is so fuzzy that our normal way of…
yeah, the argument is ridiculous; like, formally, it is ridiculous. i also disagree with the sentiment and conclusions of the argument, but the actual form of the argument is garbage: "i introduce an axiom that says…
the first post was a swipe, i'll grant you. probably shouldn't have said it. it was a knee-jerk reaction to a structurally fallacious argument that leaves no room for discussion: "i reject your stance not based on…
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wait this is kinda brilliant tho
Thank. Too much word, me try read but no more tokens.
this is true, "black" has been used in racist ways, but it got rehabbed and reclaimed in the 60s and 70s. but more to the point, it is not currently used in a racist manner by the vast majority of the US, and certainly…
"yellowsky" sounds racist because calling asians "yellow" is racist. "whitesky" sounds racist because...well, i don't know if you're a big history buff but in the US white-people-only gatherings were always suuuuper…
agreed...i think it's fine to keep up with what the corporate world is doing, but these projects bring me real joy
I don't know if this will happen in math, but in other fields where computers have outstripped humans (chess and poker, for instance), there's been a loss of creativity, but there have also been other forms of…
No matter how cheap it is, people will never be able to come anywhere close to affording what giant corporations can.
omg this is brilliant i was IMMEDIATELY tilting my face off
i was talking to opus the other night about the polio vaccine related stuff (i had been arguing with one of those people who claims the polio vaccine didn't work so i figured i'd use it as an excuse to brush up on some…
i think there are a few reasons. - lean proofs are hard, and a lot of the time there is so much mathematical machinery that folks are working on that you would need to not only prove your result, but also all of the…
lol yeah we're doomed
i can kinda get how a glp-1 can be a miracle drug for weight: if we assume that simple molecular fixes to problems will eventually be found by evolution, then when we change our environment rapidly (e.g., with cheap…
these might not be 100% complete, but i think this does a reaaalllly good job at capturing the vast majority of mathematics. i'm sure you could come up with another breakdown, but these also have the benefit of tracking…
agreed! it's funny, i'm returning to some of the maths i studied in undergrad with a bit more "worldly" knowledge (if you can call comp sci academia knowledge "worldly"), and i'm seeing that so so much of the stuff that…
yeah, i've studied a lot of math and a lot of cs, and stats is tough. part of the problem is the terminology, and just giving a ton of complex machinery without telling you what it's actually doing. i've never learned…
i mean, the headline statistic can be misleading, but you gotta dig in and wrestle with the details. just like anything, we cannot boil down complex things to single numbers and expect any sort of meaningful signal. we…
> At the time, my professor closed the final lecture with dramatic words (I'm paraphrasing slightly): >>> And now you've learned that almost all interesting problems are undecidable and of the remaining ones, almost all…
is it?
I think I'd put it this way: if I could flip a switch tomorrow and the AI boom was done, I probably would. The negative effects just super duper outweigh the fact that coders are more efficient. But since it exists, I'm…
there are some things that clearly exist that are really hard to nail down with definitions; once we get into anything social, we are kinda playing with that territory. everything is so fuzzy that our normal way of…
yeah, the argument is ridiculous; like, formally, it is ridiculous. i also disagree with the sentiment and conclusions of the argument, but the actual form of the argument is garbage: "i introduce an axiom that says…
the first post was a swipe, i'll grant you. probably shouldn't have said it. it was a knee-jerk reaction to a structurally fallacious argument that leaves no room for discussion: "i reject your stance not based on…
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wait this is kinda brilliant tho
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Thank. Too much word, me try read but no more tokens.
this is true, "black" has been used in racist ways, but it got rehabbed and reclaimed in the 60s and 70s. but more to the point, it is not currently used in a racist manner by the vast majority of the US, and certainly…
"yellowsky" sounds racist because calling asians "yellow" is racist. "whitesky" sounds racist because...well, i don't know if you're a big history buff but in the US white-people-only gatherings were always suuuuper…
agreed...i think it's fine to keep up with what the corporate world is doing, but these projects bring me real joy