@brandon_d_smith You can always tell takes like this because they don’t give versions—the authors never know enough about AI to know even that versions matter.
@the_book_land I don’t understand how anyone can like Great Gatsby. It’s about a bunch of spoiled idiots whining for 200 pages. Half the book is descriptions of how wealthy people are—who cares?
@_B___S I would think virtually anyone, or at least virtually any thoughtful person. Dogs and AIs are better conversationalists than all but a handful of people.
If you read last week's OpenAI post about their (quite impressive) math breakthrough, you probably got to this diagram and had no idea what you were looking at. I know I didn't. Now you can read @chi_t_williams's article explaining it and the rest of the result.
One reason I bring it up is that the unit distance problem counterexample involved constructing a huge and complex abstraction and then “projecting” it into a much simpler set of points on the plane. It reminded me of the way that these simple Laver tables arise from this literally huge interlacing of elementary embeddings of large cardinals.
@JDHamkins I wonder if these AIs people talk about could even understand the central conjecture: prove the period of the first row of Laver tables is unbounded without using large cardinals.