Seeing real time coverage of 9/11 really drilled into my head the scale of the terror, uncertainty, and tragedy people must have felt back them…. Shame the US decided to respond by doing 500x worse to fellow innocent humans.
EMT Christopher Attanasio, who arrived at the World Trade Center ten minutes ago, tells a reporter: “people were jumping out of the windows. I saw an airplane fuselage and landing gear. People injured on the street. Body parts on the floor. We were tagging body parts…anything we could find. I found a head. The brains were hanging over the skull. I put on a pair of gloves and picked it up. The bones and eyes fell out. So I put it down and tagged it and moved on.”
Rudy Giuliani publicly told Zohran Mamdani that it is “inappropriate” for Zohran to go to the 9/11 memorial.
On the next day, Mamdani released 170,000+ pages of documents exposing that Giuliani’s administration lied to the public, because they knew about the toxic air after 9/11, all to get people back to work.
This is the biggest political check mate of our time I fear…
Terry Tao is probably the most measured, pro-AI mathematician on the planet - which makes this quote especially concerning to read. 😟
If sharing your hunches means getting scooped ~immediately without acknowledgement, then we're going to see not just math but all other science / engineering disciplines go dark.
This Navier-Stokes thing seems like a Pyrrhic victory for OpenAI.
Yes, technically they finished first and demonstrated that their new model is "smart."
But the method? They learned that some academics were working on the problem with AI, then decided to rush ahead and get there first by throwing unlimited resources at it.
Okay, they arrived first. Fair enough.
But now: welcome to the brave new world in which every academic fears that when they chat with ChatGPT about their research, they'll be scooped the moment OpenAI decides that research has any value.
everyone's focusing on the (seemingly likely) possibility that OpenAI scooped this proof via user data, but imo that buries the lead that they allegedly wanted to strike an author's name from the record because he works for a rival company
>sam altman: "we tried this because there were rumor on the internet"
>rumor: math professor close to solving navier-stokes
>the professor: using codex for a year
>openai: has all his logs
>checked every codex session tagged to N-S
>found the most promising one
>spun up 10,000 agents to finish the proof where he couldn't
>they got caught
>told the guy if you say anything you'll destroy your own career
>he ruins his career over this
>openai: "we did not see his work"
>also openai: "we cannot rule out that de-identified data from their usage helped improve our models"
they stole it lmao
German socialism lasted 45 years without falling to fascism. It fell to liberalism instead. Now liberalism is falling to fascism, just like it did before, just as the communists predicted.
Remember when Emma Vigeland pointed out that Germany didn’t really have to pay for the Holocaust but Palestine did and everyone called her an antisemite