Real estate magnate Donald Trump calls into UPN 9 News in New York City.
When they ask if his tower on 40 Wall Street has been damaged by the attacks, he brags that it used to be the second tallest skyscraper in downtown Manhattan before the collapse of the World Trade Center, and now it’s the tallest building again.
I've known Jacob Coxon for the last three years, having started at OpenAI at the same time. I consider him a deeply thoughtful and measured individual, and also absolute chiller of a guy. I respect his decision to resign from Anthropic, at great financial cost, for his beliefs.
Terence Tao made a very powerful point:
“In most cases in pure mathematics, the problems are posed not because we desperately want the solution to these problems in and of themselves, but because we have seen from past experience that human-directed efforts to solve these problems tend to spur further development of the field through the efforts to solve such problems, and then to digest any partial or complete solutions that emerge for further insights.
Prematurely solving the problem by purely AI-powered methods—particularly without full transparency into the solution process—can contaminate this process to the point where it actually becomes a net negative for the progress of mathematics as a whole.”
I’ve been following Terence Tao for like 20 years, and I have always been impressed by the clarity of his thinking.
This clarity stands out even more in this difficult moment, as AI labs turn mathematics into a battleground in their race for supremacy.
In this race, they risk damaging one of humanity’s highest intellectual endeavours.
The experience of being human: on the day it becomes abundantly clear that all open problems in mathematical theory and physics will be solved in ~2 years tops, 98% of the people paying attention to the situation will be too fixated on the human drama about who should get credit to notice that the world changed under their feet in a permanent and quite astonishing way. I feel a strange mix of pride, annoyance, affection, and fear for us all.
Still more absolute 🔥 from Terence Tao:
“We have now seen that even the rumor of someone working on a problem can trigger a massive amount of AI-powered effort to flatten it before the original research project has time to reach its full potential. The incentives may now be pointing in the direction of no longer sharing any promising research directions with the broader community, which would reverse centuries of traditions of open science and do serious long-term damage to the future of the field”
Damn it’s not even been 5 years since those kids with .eth in their name told us we will end up poor - if we did not sell all our gold and bought their monkey picture
Was at Manipal Hospital yesterday for a dermat checkup and heard a child crying for his mother from one of the top floors. I think she had just passed away. The cry was so shrill that the whole hospital went silent.
I genuinely don’t understand what the thought process was behind having a rave/party in a hospital. It’s just deeply insensitive. If you’ve ever had someone you love admitted and spent days going back and forth to a hospital, you’d know exactly why.
Another day, Another hack.
found an auth bug where you can pre‑register [email protected], then when the real CEO logs in with Google the app drops them into your account no phishing, no exploits, just a silent full account takeover gifted by the login flow.
https://t.co/ZcrrWkkYks