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Comment · 22 days ago
We now have professional mathematicians that are on the record carelessly dismissing major math questions being decided. And I'm not talking about having a subtle discussion about what proofs mean.

So it's not really about trying it out, I think. It's something more emotional.

Comment · 22 days ago
Maybe you heard wrong? Who knows... Ask your neighbor, if not AI! :)
Comment · 22 days ago
Contributing to campaigns seems fine. In the end the choice remains in the hands of voters. Politicians with no ties to anything will just go the populist path anyway, which is often worse.
Comment · 22 days ago
"The first point is the question of whether an LLM can do work not markedly inferior to that of a human doing the same task or not. This one is debatable. An LLM absolutely cannot produce work to the highest human standards, or even a good human standard at the moment, and it's unlikely that it ever will."

This could have been fine maybe two years ago, but saying that in the era when LLMs are solving Millenium Prize Problems is incredibly obnoxious. All those opinionated "AI articles" feel like ragebait at this point.

Comment · 23 days ago
It doesn't seem like the paper is really hard to read, but rather that the terminology is "a bit off", with "unexpected theorems" and references that are correct but that could point to more useful targets (read: papers that will increase the citation count of the researcher being cites...). None of which are valid reasons to be dismissive of a good result.
Comment · 2 months ago
I'm sure you'll find some trick to not get recognized, wear some glasses or a surgical mask.
Comment · 2 months ago
Good. It’s high time we used modern technology to make public transportation safer. Soon there’ll be nowhere left to harass strangers in public. If that’s too Orwellian for you, feel free to bike.
Comment · 2 months ago
Leftists with jobs, perhaps.
Comment · 3 months ago
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Some vague handwaving "liberalism bad" by people who have never bothered to try to understand how systems work.
Comment · 3 months ago
You'll never guess what structure contributes most to "government funds": guess what, it starts with "com" and ends with "panies".
Comment · 3 months ago
Requiring $7 billion in collateral, nearly half the cost of the entire $15 billion project, to insure the utility’s full capital investment in case the company walks away, is completely insane. “Existing customers should not subsidize data centers” seems like pure demagogy there.

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