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Grigori Perelman rejected the Fields Medal and the Clay prize among other things for what he considered unjust decisions and lack of ethics and proper attribution to other mathematicians. I find it surprising that he hasn't been mentioned yet, given it involves another Clay prize (ironically another lack of attribution, I guess). There is a long tradition of mental problems among great mathematicians, but maybe this was not the case, or maybe in a Lovecraftian way the observation of deep truths has a terrible toll.

Should you learn history if it is already written in a book? Should you live if others are already living?

The Statue of Greed, located appropriately at a Casino

Happy paying Mathematica customer here.

I think this is great. A lot of people want to have a free alternative. For me, the real value of this is the creation of a community and setting the foundation for something better than Mathematica. I'm on the side of those that think that programming languages are a tool of thought and Wolfram lang can be extremely expressive. I love non-mainstream but useful languages.

The very point of the article is that you can win individually and lose as a colective, and that the competitive nature of the field goes against the greater good. And the people betting against AI will be ripped off.

Physics simulation is a dangerous rabbit hole. Even if you focus just on rigid bodies and just physical plausibility there are plenty of open problems related to collision detection and collision resolution. Convex approximations and/or decompositions for geometry and hand tuning of solvers are the norm, balancing robustness and precision against speed.

Reading AI PRs reminds me of Monty Python's holy grenade:

"And the Lord spake, saying, ''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'

It reads like those nightmares where you need to pass final exams again.

I guess nowadays it is much simpler to correlate some text with prior work, more so with LLMs. It is like those doping cases where several years later we are able to detect a previously unknown sustance in an old sample.

Maybe it's time to acknowledge that current copyright laws do more harm than good and put another framework in place.

Why have the powerful not completely killed the rest of the people?

A. Ethics/Morals B. Power balance C. People are a valuable resource

I think we are all a little concerned it is C.

It's a grim thought and I'm optimistic, but the stakes are very high. Reminds me of Solaria (Foundation and Earth, Asimov).

That's like 4 times the ESA budget, and still insignificant compared to the money poured into AI. Several companies could cover that budget with quarterly profits.

Yes, it has the authority. There are plenty of EU regulations that states must obey, from fundamental rights to taxation.

Everything is OK. I love looking at desktops, but I became old to put the effort. I think you are a bard more than a wizard.