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Weird Things Happen When Math Gets Too Expressive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVwQsvof7Hw

Peano arithmetic is sufficiently expressive enough to be equivalent to any possible future theory of mathematics.

Comment · 6 months ago
Human race is indeed fascinating. We kill millions of cows for food while doing the following in the same breath.

A bronze sculpture unveiled in March 2026 in Almaty, Kazakhstan (near the Europe/Asia border region), honors strangers who formed a human chain to save a dog from the Sayran Reservoir in 2016. The statue, located along the canal embankment, symbolizes unity and collective action after the 2016 viral rescue.

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On the efficiency side, why do we need 10 companies doing the same thing. "Don't Repeat Yourself" principle would agree with your proposal.
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I can't run my business without electricity. Yet we don't fear of its access being revoked. Sam makes the comparison of intelligence to electricity a lot. So we are on the path to these systems becoming utilities.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superformula

Have you heard of Superformula ? I remember playing with them few years ago.

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AI told me my ideas are so good that I should write a book. Luckily I am in charge of I spend my time. Idea guys are very common in game industry.
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One great opportunity is for expert-developers to push the boundary of better algorithms or libraries. No one rolls out their own cryptographic library, majority problems faced in our systems are common. If that common problem is solved once and packaged into a library to be used by anyone, no one else needs to bother looking at it. Most of modern software dev is all about plumbing. The harder parts need to solved once and that solution becomes available to everyone immediately.
Comment · 6 months ago
Another question is would a future world require so much code that we turn code generation into a service itself. Perhaps an analogy will help. e.g. do we use our lawnmowers 24x7? I understand we will have far more code in future but current capacity (devs working on code on laptops) should be sufficient.
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A glove (software) that fits the hand (company processes) perfectly.

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