Chess amateur

Chess player & mathematician

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

Talking about Zionism as 'self-determination' is like talking about the 'self-determination' of whites in Jim Crow America. It's not a serious argument, it's a rhetorical trick and nothing more.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

"Zionism just means self-determination for Jews!"

No that's not what Zionism means. Zionism means exactly what we see before us today. Genocide. Ethnic cleansing. Apartheid. Nonstop violence and abuse. That's what Zionism means. And anti-Zionism means opposing these things.

There is simply no argument to the contrary. This is indisputably what Zionism looks like. There is no other alternate reality iteration of Zionism you can point to where genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and nonstop violence and abuse are not happening. This is the only way Zionism looks. The Zionist experiment has been run, and these are the results.

Trying to argue that Zionism doesn't mean genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and nonstop violence and abuse is exactly the same as trying to argue that Nazism doesn't mean all the things that happened when the Nazism experiment was run. Nazism means all the things that happened under Nazism. You can't legitimately tell me that no actually Nazism just means a safe and prosperous homeland for the German people. We've seen what Nazism looks like, and we've seen what Zionism looks like. To argue otherwise is to argue with reality.

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

Thoroughly enjoying the current crashout in response to mathematicians' apathy to the great slopdrop of October 2026.

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

There is something very Hegelian about the AI bros' relationship to mathematics. They want to destroy the discipline and replace it with grifters and button-pushers, yet they are left hollow without the approval of those they seek to destroy.

[Joel Fish @joelwatsonfish]

Hot take: One purpose of releasing slop proofs of big results without lean verification is to encourage people to spend tokens on both lean verification and to help digest the proof.

The first hit is free my friend, but the rest will cost you.

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

@petergostev @singularityHSN A straight up lie. He is not even a member of AHM, let alone 'de-facto leader'.

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

@GonZalocla I don't put any stock in their claimed compute resources. There has been no transparency from them at any point. How have they earned my trust?

[Ross McCafferty @RossMcCaff]

if she died in the UK, the BBC would discuss it on a panel featuring a Labour MP (themselves a landlord) saying its an unavoidable tragedy, a Tory MP (funded by landlords) mocking her, and a right-wing journalist implying she deserved it cos she liked pro-Palestine tweets once.

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

Media reaction to 'The biggest day in the history of mathematics'

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

Laundering this 1100 death toll is just insane when most of the October 7th deaths were due to Israel implementing the Hannibal Directive.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.

The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.

Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.

To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

[Mohammad Hajiaghayi (IG@mhajiaghayi,YT:hajiaghayi) @MTHajiaghayi]

For at least a couple of problems I worked on extensively with GPT/Codex (with data sharing off), I noticed an OpenAI solution shortly afterward, based on the paper dates. That is deeply concerning: OpenAI may be competing directly with its users using massive data and resources.

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

@JamesJouissance Glad it's not just me. Unreadable garbage. I checked some of the cited papers to confirm that I'm not washed up and can still read papers in analytic number theory.

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

I mean come on guys. I know my way around analytic number theory and the writing here is awful. Thanks for explaining 500 times what 'uniform bound' means in the previous paragraph though, really helpful.

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

@Quasilocal But 'Mathematicians have tried and failed for decades!'

[big brane boi @bcubeddd]

Dear junior mathematicians/scientists

The deluge of results from OAI and Anthropic shouldn't deter you. You are needed, more than ever, not to "digest" slop or play the AI slot machine, but to fight the race to the bottom and make some actual fucking science.

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

The exposition in these OAI papers is ridiculous. They explain in condescending detail very basic concepts, but gloss over far more advanced ones.

[𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 @JimmyJ4thewin]

🚨NEW: Ben-Gvir’s party handed school students pins shaped like nooses, symbols of Palestinian civilian executions.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

I do point out that this behaviour is most stridently deployed at times when America is most acutely fucking up, because it’s always more congenial to focus on the views of @ WallopersForStalin69 than look at 25 years of catastrophic military defeat, disaster and mass slaughter.

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

@doomslide One of my friends is currently writing a PhD on exactly one of the claimed results, with extensive use of ChatGPT

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

More lower case posting. Levent has much to answer for.

[Rohan Pandey @khoomeik]

kakeya conjecture in R^3 has been resolved

(fields medal for hong wang this yr was for progress on this problem)

[Chess amateur @midchesslevel]

@francoisfleuret Very unimaginative movies we've been making I suppose

[Alexander Gamburd @AGamburd18746]

Over three centuries ago our Enlightenment forefathers brought forth in Europe and carried to this continent a new way of knowing, and of telling what is known, conceived in distrust of authority, and dedicated to the proposition that truth is accessible to human reason. Mathematics, the Enlightenment’s firstborn, was its existence proof—knowledge that compels assent without appeal to authority—because the only way to make a theorem certain was to show it to a human mind. Now we are engaged in an existential struggle testing whether mathematics, or any discipline so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met in the wake of the OpenAI press release: 166 pages, 616,000 lines of Lean, produced in 88 hours by some 10,000 software agents, and read in full—at the time of this Siren Call—by no human being. A proof has historically been two things: a certificate that a theorem is true, and a demonstration that lets another person see why. OpenAI delivered the first without the second. But, in a larger sense, what matters is not what the Silicon Leviathan (OpenAI and its peer competitors) produces but - rather - what we accept. By accepting the certificate without the demonstration, we adopt the Hobbesian bargain: authority, not truth, makes the law. The age it augurs is a Middle Ages in reverse, in Panofsky’s phrase, with a sub-human superintelligence for its authority. The great task before us is to frame a covenant under which what has become optional—understanding—remains required: that nothing counts as mathematics until a human being has understood it—and can show the next person why. Whether we keep our sovereign inheritance will be decided at the moment of acceptance -- which is not yet past -- and will determine whether this Aufklärungsdämmerung spells the Enlightenment perishing from the earth, which nourishes all.

https://t.co/zOZMgpmAXb

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

This is a fantasy. The *entire point of all this* for ten years has been 1) Absolutely fuck you, the left does not get any kind of power, ever, 2) We will do and say literally anything, whatever it takes, to ensure this never happens and 3) Britain does whatever America wants.