Sam Duval

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

2026 resolution: No procrastination. No Fear.

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@Winterrose see you in azeroth :)

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@elonmusk @C_3C_3 ty! it's helping :)

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@BretDevereaux enter ability to project power, set ranks across nations, and keep hardware running in a prolonged conflict

even ww1 artillery would probably be enough

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

@MoonL88537 and it has become more fun to program and use computers

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

@rieszspieces @torgeirlysen @chaotictransfem Why would proofs be the only thing we value?

A bunch of sloppy proofs that need to be checked and turned into useful stuff seems like a tons of reasons to give funding with clear goals.

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

@rieszspieces @chaotictransfem Ideas are the hard part in AI world, someone who can come up with novel well defined ideas that clearly define problems to be solved is increasingly valuable

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@m4h007 People will read them if they find use, and won’t if they don’t…

If nobody acknowledges them, someone can parse it, rewrite in a better way, and have that be acknowledged.

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

@rieszspieces @chaotictransfem and during those months of work don't you think people will extract new techniques / ideas?

or do you think it would be better for them to approach the problem without the paper...? which they totally can, nobody is forcing anyone to engage with them.

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

goodhart's law: "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

GDP maxxing one shot so many western leaders

yes it is very possible to fill an economy with measurable economic activity that raises GDP while making end results worse.

current UK economy is:
~ 80% services
~ 12% industry
~ 6% construction
~ 1% agriculture

if one country can build a factory for $1B and another spends $3B because of lawyers, consultants, permits, and compliance, the second country records more GDP while producing the same factory slower.

[Brent Scher @BrentScher]

This is absolutely priceless.

Tucker just states as fact that Russia has a much larger economy than the UK, is completely wrong and gets schooled.

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

@signulll have it do something on dmv website instead

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@matthias_mrc eat a burger, love, sleep, kiss, cry

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https://t.co/lupDZ7drXc

[Will @mental_willness]

What’s your solution to the Fermi Paradox?

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

when they ask why open weight models got banned

[sabir hussain @sabir_huss50540]

This is fucking gold 😂😂

I can’t even explain what I just watched.

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

we have every reason to push on the gas. so many parts of humanity can be improved from their current state.

[Haider. @haider1]

Mathematician Terence Tao:

"we have to slow down AI. the pace is insane, and there's no reason to be this fast — no reason at all"

It's amazing how willing we are to change everything without any idea what happens afterward

These are extremely nonlinear dynamics

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

@dopabees you can take me out but you have to buy me icecream after

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https://t.co/ho5EhIjq2m

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@GaryMarcus if the proof is incomprehensible then doing the work to unwind it should yield interesting insights.

i struggle to see any issue with using oracles to get answers faster.

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

You'd think mathematicians would instead be petitioning their institutions to buy them tons of GPUs

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

it must be a group-think moment, they cannot seriously believe that AI is going to harm humanities exploration of math.

they can use a the 'true/false' generated to help narrow the search space for fertile ground of new ideas. furthermore the third paragraph gives plenty of noble role left for mathematicians...

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Twenty-five Fields Medal winners have published a joint declaration warning about what they see as a severe misalignment between AI companies and the mathematics community.

[Sam Duval @_SamDuval]

https://t.co/7qCuIN7Ji5