lejalv

I know the US thinks only its citizens are human, so "The United States has been involved in hundreds of interventions in foreign countries throughout its history, engaging in nearly 500 military interventions between 1776 and 2026, with half of these operations occurring since 1950 and over 25% occurring in the post-Cold War period” is not probably part of the reputable storytelling

Comment · 15 days ago

They are arguing for you using your brain instead of tethering it to a number.

Comment · 20 days ago

No, I don't think you (or the part of the thread I read thus far, top to bottom) are giving the most charitative interpretation of the post.

In my understanding, the article wants to raise awareness of the potential dynamics of a mathematics/theoretical computer science field governed by the imperfect rules (as they must be) of human sensemaking when the merit system (publication and community standards) are hacked by a machines for which the cost-benefit calculation is very different than for human reseachers for which the rules were invented / sedimented in the first place.

The foregoing discussion above about the emergent utility of now seemingly wasteful theoretical research is as old as any other, but equally predicated on human effort/apability ratios. And AI should invite us to rethink, because to be relevant to humans, its unwieldy results will have to be judged by humans, on their timescales and effort budgets. So we are discussing whether SPAM or HAM before we literally spend our lives as human critics of what ultimately could just be a reward hacking exercise by somebody with access to free tokens.

Comment · 20 days ago

You are underestimating their opportunism