Scott S

Old(er) but not dead.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

The Friendship Baptist Church in Ohio, which is over 100 years old, was destroyed by a MASSIVE fire over the weekend.

The remnants of the building were demolished after the fire was put out.

Yet another church mysteriously goes up in flames...

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

Belloc on the brutal killing spree that let Muslim forces take half of Christendom in the 7th century:

“It was just at this moment, a moment of apparently universal and permanent Catholicism, that there fell an unexpected blow of overwhelming magnitude and force. Islam arose—quite suddenly. It came out of the desert and overwhelmed half our civilization. Islam—the teaching of Mohammed—conquered immediately in arms. Mohammed’s Arabian converts charged into Syria and won there two great battles, the first upon the Yarmuk to the east of Palestine in the highlands above the Jordan, the second in Mesopotamia. They went on to overrun Egypt; they pushed further and further into the heart of our Christian civilization with all its grandeur of Rome. They established themselves all over Northern Africa; they raided into Asia Minor… They could even occasionally threaten Constantinople itself. At last, a long lifetime after their first victories in Syria, they crossed the Straits of Gibraltar into Western Europe and began to flood Spain. They even got as far as the very heart of Northern France, between Poitiers and Tours, less than a hundred years after their first victories in Syria—in A.D. 732. Such a revolution had never been. No earlier attack had been so sudden, so violent or so permanently successful. Within a score of years from the first assault in 634 the Christian Levant had gone: Syria, the cradle of the Faith, and Egypt with Alexandria, the mighty Christian See. Within a lifetime half the wealth and nearly half the territory of the Christian Roman Empire was in the hands of Mohammedan masters and officials… Within a hundred years, a main part of the Roman world had fallen under the power of this new and strange force from the Desert.”

[Mens_Corner__ @Mens_Corner__]

This would have kept me occupied for the summer as a child

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

I don’t think being critical of the amazing work AI is doing in pure math is fair to @OpenAI until I can start to say why I feel it’s not yet at the level of our top humans. It’s like AI has a style that is weirdly being taken to be universal (which it isnt). Hence the claim that Mathematians and Physicists are nearly obsolete.

Ahem: there is no *public* indication that this is REMOTELY true. Yet.

I would like to pose a collection of math physics benchmarks that are not about searching large spaces for counter examples and the like. These are 10 problems and issues that humans haven’t solved but which we likely will solve. Each feels to me like a deeply human math/physics problem.

This isn’t an unfriendly challenge to @sama and team. It’s just pointing out that AI has yet to deeply touch any of the kind of things that many of us care MOST about in Mathematics and Physics.

I’m just not a puzzle solver or a discrete conjecture guy. I’m into theory building and even the mathematical version of mysticism.

Here goes an attempt:

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A) What new Extraordinary Cohomology Theories/Co-cycles can AI find that we need, but do not know/understand?

B) What areas of pure mathematics and theoretical physics are most polluted by human blind spots? Where is the training corpus most wrong? Show us you can go well beyond us by contradicting your training.

C) What discarded ideas were discarded improperly and prematurely?

D) What is a natural version of Grand Unification that doesn’t contradict experiment?

E) Find a natural version of Super-Symmetry that doesn’t predict Superpartners and that predicts unification scale different from the Minimally SuperSymmetric Extension or the Standard Model.

F) Pose a new, deep and surprising conjecture relating 3 or more of the following: representation theory, number theory, arithmetic/algebraic geometry, and analysis on manifolds, homotopy theory and Pseudo-Riemannian Spin Geometry.

G) Integrate the Octonions, Magic Square and the 4 large exceptional lie groups, tightly into the mainstream of mathematics once and for all.

H) Settle the issue of the 6 sphere and complex structures in Math or the Koide fine tuning mystery in particle theory.

I) Explain the reason for there being 3 families of observed Fermions.

J) Give a deep, natural and as yet unknown reason for the remarkable Fermi-Bose correspondence (e.g. Metaplectic vs Spin reps, Honest vs Berezin Integrals, etc.). Why should we have expected this correspondence to be this weird and this tight?

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I don’t think humans are going to be ahead forever. AI will blow past us.

So while I am not all that impressed yet at the math or physics, any non-tricky solutions to one of the above (with the possible exception of some answers to H) would feel different to me than the feeling I get from AI finding yet another funky counter examples to some Erdos problem, discrete puzzle or Combinatorial issue in Graph theory.

We have always been humbled by Gauss, Galois, Dirac and Newton. That’s nothing new. If this is going to put us out of work soon, LFG.

May the best mathematicians and physicists, carbon or silicon, win.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher’s audience audibly gasps when he reads what the Democratic Socialists of America are actually saying out loud:

MAHER: “Trump has told 1 trillion lies, but when he says the DSA are actually COMMUNISTS, that’s not one of them.”

“And it’s not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates.”

“J.D. Vance was on the show, and I told him that if the Democratic Party keeps going in the direction of the DSA, my vote was in play. And all I heard all vacation was, ‘Oh, my God, you’re a Republican now.’ No, that's not what I said. I said in play, and here’s why.”

“Because not a week goes by where I don’t read about some newly chosen, exciting new face in the Democratic Party. And then when that face opens its mouth, the Communist Manifesto or some other crazy shit comes out! Again.”

“Let’s just read the quotes. The DSA platform says: ‘You work as much as you are able and no more than needed.’ If that was any closer to Karl Marx’s dictum, from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs, they’d be sued for plagiarism.”

“New York Mayor Mamdani once tweeted, Karl Marx’s words exactly. They’re not trying to hide it. Their most popular influencer, Hasan Piker, thinks communism is so groovy, he laments the fall of two of the most murderous regimes in history, the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao's China.”

“Mamdani's aide, his top aide, Cea Weaver, said, ‘If you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over.’ And ‘impoverish the white middle class.’ What? That's a goal? You know you're supposed to scare people into voting for you, right?”

“One of the new, soon-to-be Democratic congresspeople, Darlesia Chavalier, supports seizing all properties from landlords and said, ‘Seize the means of production.’ Mamdani has said ‘The end goal is seizing the means of production.’ I think they want to seize the means of production.”

“Now, maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether, but THAT'S COMMUNISM.”

“Now the coalition within the DSA called the Marxist Unity Group is in ascendance. And I must take them at their word. When their words include, ‘Our commitment is to the long-term struggle for a fully liberated classless society. In a word, communism.’”

“What do they have to do, tweet out ‘Elect more communists’? Oh, yeah, Cea Weaver did that.”

[Shows tweet, audience audibly gasps]

“Yes, [she really did that]! ... People gotta realize this is going on.”

[broman2model1898 @broman2mod1898]

@JohnCleese For one , Mr Cleese says something political , and I totally concur !. Bravo !.

[Esteban @EstebanMathurin]

@JohnCleese @DrGomezVikings John Cleese is a valiant defender of British values, freedom and security

Many wish to end Freedom of Speech and female equality. Traitors all.

Bravo John

[CornerCarver @V4Carver]

@JohnCleese

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

Ladies, are you paying attention yet?

[CanadianExMuslim @ExMuslimAz]

The Muslims are destroying Europe 💣

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The third-worlding of America.

Legitimate businesses and restaurants have to spend money on compliance, health inspections, permits, taxes, insurance, legal wages, etc.

Meanwhile, illegal immigrants set up shop anywhere they want. No inspections. No regulations. Cash only. Far-left officials look the other way and allow them to undercut Americans while normalizing third-world decline in our cities.

[Greg Wycliffe @gddub]

As we know climate change causes forest fires in sparsely populated areas that ignite in a near perfect straight line perpendicular to the wind's direction

[Ryan Scott 🇺🇸 @RyanScottND]

@libsoftiktok Migrant implies they plan to return home.

They don’t.

These are Third World Immigrants at this point. They are eroding the productive capacity of Europe, acting as a fiscal drag, and diluting its cultural Heritage.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

The suspect who was arrested for the fire at a Church in Pittsburgh appears to be transgender

The suspect’s name is Colton Normand

[Veles @velesxbt]

Claude Shannon ran his personal stock account at 28% a year for 30 years. He's also the man who mathematically proved the ceiling above every filter the thread above is selling.

Both facts have been sitting in the same library since 1948.

Shannon didn't beat the market with a smarter moving average. He didn't beat it with a swarm, a neural net, or the sharpest filter of his generation, and he could have built any of them in an afternoon. He beat it because he understood the one thing the industry has been quietly ignoring for 78 years: no filter, no matter how clever, can pull more signal from a channel than the channel actually holds.

The market channel is almost pure noise by design. Every real edge gets arbitraged toward zero the moment enough people find it. A better filter doesn't create signal that wasn't there - it rounds noise into a shape that fools you into betting on it.

Shannon compounded like that because he was ruthless about which channels still had signal left, and disciplined about how much to bet when they did. The filter came last. It always comes last.

Build the filter. It's a fine tool. Just remember there's a ceiling above it no engineering can lift, and the part that finds signal before it decays - that part, you still have to bring yourself.

Shannon wrote it down in 1948. It's still free. The lesson has been sitting there for 78 years.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Two years ago today

Fight! Fight! Fight!

[Jerry Rivers @ChiTown_Burgh]

@skiistiredasf @thegoodlife4us took 15 years. Not awarded it by Obama, not by Biden or Harris. TRUMP awarded it to him. If Trump is a racist he suck at it.

[Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang]

Bill Clinton: “The Palestinians were offered a state. They refused. A state wasn't their goal. Killing Jews was.”

[STUNNER @Cr7Godbrand]

Women are the enemy of civilizations because their loyalty is to survival, not principles. Women’s moral conscience is lower than men’s because their psychological development is based on shame, not guilt.

Men feel guilt as an inner punishment, while women feel shame as fear of outside judgment. Because of this, women’s behavior is driven by social survival rather than principles. This is why people say a woman has the prerogative to change her mind.

This leads to a lack of accountability and an inability to accept the truth. No matter how well arguments are presented, women hate the truth.

Women understand the world through their feelings, which causes shifting standards. Because of this lack of reason and logic, civilization cannot survive under female leadership.

Men build and women consume. Men build civilization, while women build families. When women rise in power, civilization collapses, as the proverb says, “the hen does not herald the morning.”

Women belong at the heart of the family because of reproduction. Men continue in their role as warriors, protectors, and providers at the family and national level.

Women are supposed to support society through reproduction and promoting family, but they are not doing so. This is a failure of duty to society.

The feminist desire to win without a clear goal and without understanding consequences weakens the state. The state becomes weak and is then conquered by stronger forces.

Women should not vote or hold positions of national importance.