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Its terrible to have a few people have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of wealth instead of shoving it all in everyone's bank account.

I made the mistake of using "ice" and "illegal" in one sentence and got shadow banned.

There's a lot of chatter about how AI is advancing mathematics at the expense of human understanding. This is going to be true for software industry also at some point. The main gripe of mathematicians is how AI is discouraging young people from persevering. Right now job market is rough for junior SWE and unlike mathematics professors, nobody gives a damn. A few years down the line we'll see a real shortage of software engineers who "understands" and it will come back to bite the industry.

And Tesla will be the pioneer.

You can't. The guy who posted about bloating in his Samsung TV already got his account by OpenAI.

DOGE was created to kill brown babies.

I know it sounds extreme, but this is my takeaway.

Tech billionaires have a twisted view of the world. They openly talk about how US and Europe is lagging behind in birth rate compared to developing nations. They openly encourage people to create more babies. Conversely, while they don't openly vouch for it, DOGE and the gutting of USAID has directly resulted in higher child mortality in developing nations.

I'll also add, which law said create DOGE?

I have a completely different perspective on this.

During the day, I am using Opus 5.5 to develop solutions our team would never think was possible two years ago.

Ar night I am watching my 5yo learn how to read and do math. The sense of accomplishment he shows being able to add double digits is contagious.

Nothing is mundane. One man's basic work is another man's magic. When we have appreciation for each other, we advance more as a species.

Apart from transformer architecture, pretty much every other discovery that makes large language models viable today happened in universities.

That means there's no crisis in mathematics after all, right?

Working with academic communities lol.

I looked over the announcement for any substantial contribution, and found they're donating $5 million to a research foundation.

$5 million might sustain 5-10 PhD students for 5 years.

Maybe it's just me but I think they should contribute more in exchange for forcing the scientific community into paying for tokens to generate slop and then pouring their time into verifying or falsifying the slop.

Access to the study requires $17,500 per year, just fyi.

I think OP meant to say raising the West Papuan flag.

Thanks for sharing this!

Edit: this is flabbergasting. West Papuans are resisting combined forces of Indonesia, US, UK, with some 300 guns.

Yes there are. Some of the clothes you wear might be from there.