Experimental physicists give problems to Fable that they would have normally given to colleagues in the theory department. Less collaboration among humans, less sharing of collective success, more egos.
If every chat instantiates an AI agent, will the best human in Y still count as second-best in Y, or will it occupy rank 12831231202312? The latter is certainly less of an appealing goal.
@mwseibel In the industry of science, winning the race (of solving a problem many people care about) is the number 1 goal. Improving anything at all is just an externality.
@stevenstrogatz One may or may not agree with Searle. But the ability to articulate a thought verbally without dumping half-baked ideas into a LLM and asking for a well-formulated draft will remain an enviable asset as long as the goal is to convince humans, not machines.
You cannot do HEP if you lack access to accelerators, spectrometers or observatories. As mathematics becomes more accessible to the public, availability of frontier models and computational power might become the competitive edge that attracts the best talent on research level.
Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
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“China was the chisel used to weaken the foundation of constitutional checks and balances in the name of protecting the imperiled American worker,” writes Benn Steil.
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US Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack:
Peace is an illusion. There has never been peace.
There will probably never be peace.
Somebody wants dominance, which means somebody has to submit. There is no Arabic word for submit. They can't wrap their head around submit.