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Regarding the pitfalls of Flaming Wheel Law, for clarity:
https://t.co/HmMx9sPyOo

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@getjonwithit It's a tough one for sure

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@burny_tech @memecrashes I guess the question is who is more suited to decide the way one practices? Mathematics as a shared resource is a dangerous idea, and not in a good way. We don't get to decide what makes more sense, utility or beauty.
The situations we engineer around the practice usually do.

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@delicflower @silhuzz @willdepue Then act! Every move has at least one counter move assuming you do more than nothing. You don't like how someone is changing things change it back!

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@daviderady Looking forward to this

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@AshFunction Looking good

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@invinciDesigns @randw ahem!

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@JesterMule @karthiktadepall I've been on quite a ride. Let's hop into a Space at some point. Would love to hear what you've been up to as well. The fun stuff is definitely on the way though.

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@amr3k_ @kirillk_web3 What you've never heard of the great pyracubes of Giza?

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@DilumSanjaya You plan making the source available?

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@JesterMule @karthiktadepall Le ideal

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@Tsing967 @SimonsFdn @UChicago @stonybrooku @UofT @nyuniversity @Institut_IHES True!

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This is it. Study this.

[Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepall]

Terry Tao's talking to ChatGPT about the Jacobian counterexample makes it clear how powerful domain expertise is for eliciting AI capabilities. I cannot believe his GPT 5.6 is the same as my GPT 5.6. I could never elicit that kind of capability out of 5.6 or Fable, even though we know they have it in them. I would fail because I couldn't follow what they are saying, or ask the right questions to push them towards a solution.

How much expertise do you need to elicit that capability? Could an undergrad math major elicit the intelligence we see in that conversation and that must have been present in the original Fable disproof? I would bet that if 100 math majors had Fable and tried to resolve the Jacobian conjecture, none of them would succeed. 100 math PhDs might have a higher success rate, but how much higher? Levent Alpoge seems like a prodigy who has done serious work in the space before. I imagine his conversation with Fable involved some pretty high-insight direction on his part, beyond what a typical PhD student could do.

As AI capabilities keep increasing, I expect the gap between their default performance and their maximum performance will persist or even grow. Put differently: I bet a layperson with access to a model 10x smarter than Fable could not elicit a finding like the Jacobian counterexample.

This is a special feature of scientific research, by the way. Most tasks have a ceiling on how well you can do them. There is no Shakespeare of customer service emails that is 100x better than the average customer service email. But scientific research is limited by the unbounded ceiling of everything we do not know. Perhaps as models get more intelligent, expert researchers will produce superhuman knowledge by eliciting genius capabilities, while the rest of us will be made equal, inputing the same prompts as everyone else and praying for rain.

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I have said this before, but distillation is the least of the US's worries. Gpt 5.6 sol, a model whose tokens are basically free, can entirely rewrite all CUDA programs to whatever the fuck you want them to be written to

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@DanielleFong Correct

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@doodlestein @ariccio Buy as many if these tickets as you can

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@bronzeagepapi You can buy nuclear reactors there too apparently. At least you could a few years ago 😉

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@bronzeagepapi This is funny 🤣

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@2ap2cb2 @quinnswm You're successful

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@norvid_studies @sensekibun @__vining I remember a motivational speech a professor gave once. He just kept pointing to the words "Be better." Written on a chalkboard and it took me entirely too long to figure out how serious he was about his point.
(He was dead serious btw)

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@2ap2cb2 @0xBunny Nice