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[NIK @ns123abc]

BREAKING: Terence Tao and 24 other Fields Medalists just signed a letter telling AI companies they're destroying mathematics

>headlines: AI solves famous math problems
>25 greatest mathematicians respond today
>"we are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work"
>ai labs are treating math problems like a benchmark you can brute force
>“solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup and citing relevant previous work of others"
>they're talking about openai
>"this raises severe attribution and plagiarism questions"
>they're definitely talking about openai
>openai offered to put math professor name on navier-stokes proof
>condition: abandon his coauthor bc he works at anthropic
>"the most precious resources of our profession are students and ideas"
>for the labs the most precious resource is GPUs

A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

[🌿💚Basil➡️HaloFest💚🌿 @itsbasilbasil]

Moral arguments aside, genAI is a shortcut that immediately tells me that you were willing to cut corners and compromise on quality, and that doesn't give me confidence in the rest of your work as a first impression.

[reason @reason]

Flock allegedly spotted this Colorado woman's truck around the time and location of a package theft.

What ensued was a Kafkaesque scene in which she insisted it wasn't her, while an officer who came to her door said he had indisputable proof—but refused to show her unless she admitted she stole the package.

"It is her, it is 100 percent, it is locked in, there is zero doubt," he tells her.

But police dropped the case after she provided her cellphone tracking data, camera footage from her truck, and video placing her elsewhere at the time of the theft

From wrongful arrests to officers stalking exes, license plate readers keep exposing police failures: https://t.co/FPyx05m1iZ

[Sneedle @SRamirez68083]

I knew the remodeling after the fire was controversial but I thought it was culture war nonsense.
I can see why people were angry.

[turbomander (TWITCH AFFILIATE ERA) @turbomander]

mfs are always soooooo shocked when a heretic starts chanting some "blood for the blood god" when its like, yeah no shit? like what else did u think the blood god would want?? 🤦like damn man u wont BELIEVE what goes on the skull throne

[j.y.e ☭ @jyesinner]

não posso aceitar o méxico levando todo o crédito sendo que nós brasileiro também trabalhamos duro por isso

[Val C. Delamere ♦️ @ValDelamere]

i think it's the funniest situation in geopolitics because it may well be the only dispute in which the UK is unequivocably on the right side. there was no native population killed, the existing population overwhelmingly wishes to stay british, etc.

[Blitz 🐧 @MechaGoddess]

I try not to be all like "I don't miss older internet anime culture THAT much" but when I'm watching something with fansubs and the opening has neat little karaoke effects I cannot deny that I feel something

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[uke creature🇵🇸🚩 @UkeCreature]

when you slip a little in the shower and you know you died in your original reality but the quantum immortality kicked in so it's chill

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

tied Spain
tied Uruguay
undefeated in group
tied until the 110th minute against the world champions and had them scrambling for their lives to prevent an equalizer in the last moments

Cape Verde was legit, no Cinderella

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Tucson, Arizona changed the color of 20,000 streetlights, cut light pollution by 7%, prevented countless wildlife deaths, and saved taxpayers a boatload of money.

Most cities retrofitting streetlights to LED chose cool-white bulbs in the 4,000K range because they're bright and cheap. Cool-white light scatters upward and sideways at higher rates than the old sodium lamps, which is why light pollution has actually increased in many cities that switched to LED. Hundreds of millions of migrating songbirds navigate by stars and get pulled off course by that scatter every year, many of them fatally.

Tucson chose warm-white 3,000K LEDs instead, added full shielding so the light points down rather than up or sideways, and programmed adaptive dimming: 90% brightness from sunset to midnight, 60% after that until dawn. It was a win for wildlife and taxpayers: the whole thing costs less to run than what it replaced.

Philadelphia, LA, and Phoenix have all run LED retrofits that made skyglow worse. The technology to do it right exists and isn't expensive. It's a procurement decision, which means it's a political one. And political decisions are ones you can influence.

Your city council chose your streetlights. Most of them have never been asked about color temperature, shielding, or dimming schedules, not because those things don't matter, but because most people don't know to ask.

The night sky is habitat. The darkness migrating birds need to navigate is habitat. We've been treating it as a waste product of lighting decisions made by people who weren't thinking about birds.

Ask your council what color temperature your streetlights are. Most of them won't know the answer.

[Laura Elliott @TinyWriterLaura]

so go bankrupt already and save us all the environmental and social problems you’re creating

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Sorry to lib out, but the reflecting pool thing has become legit funny because it’s now inevitable that they’re going to have to drain it again and redo the whole thing but it still won’t work for some easily avoidable reason. A summer story for our time

[Is This Real Art ? @IsThisRealArt_]

And nothing of value was created from it.

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

A life-changing amount of money was wasted on tokens that didn’t produce anything of value

[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

AI has done absolutely nothing to make the lives of just about anyone I know better in any meaningful way, and in fact has mostly made life far more fucking miserable. And yet we're forced to endure insufferable jackasses around every corner forcing it down our throats.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Day one of GitHub Copilot token-based billing and the customers LOVE IT! They're all celebrating the power and value of generative AI!

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

I finally made it to WAFFLE HOUSE.

The staff are always friendly, and when I asked if they would sell me a menu, they sold me one for $5.
Next time, I’ll be back at 3 a.m. for fight time.
#WAFFLEHOUSE