nillmorphic

[Другая планета @nihilunbounded]

At some point I had to accept the reality that no matter how tall a tower in the library of Babel that mathematicians make, that doesn't help me in understanding much. I can look at it, be moderately excited about it, try to participate in the conversation but at the end of the day I don't know enough and I need to go back and lock myself away somewhere to think about embarrassingly stupid things very slowly, far away from the crowd. This is even more the case with AI in math for me. Is it a little isolating? Sure. But there's no other way I can understand things deeply. Learning by osmosis doesn't exist.

[J-P @jpburelle]

"the gatekeeping is finally over!"

-guy who has never seen the gate, doesn't care what's beyond it and will never try to go in his life

[Другая планета @nihilunbounded]

You want to hear the nuclear take, magic man? Brace yourself.

I would rather die of cancer any day of the week than have my cognitive abilities be stored in a homonculus chatbox that can't draw a convincing mathematical picture to save it's life.

So AI curing cancer is net negative in my view.

[nillmorphic @NilluMorphism]

@qubitusama Having read your paper on chaotic numbers, are you sure this is not just you coping? You claim to prove riemann hypothesis and navier stokes in it. I mean what even are you talking about. That paper reads like ai slop even before ai slop papers were a thing!!!

[The Darkest Matter @Dr_Dark_Matter_]

Everyone who goes soft on these AI companies is

1) trying to get hired by them

2) hoping to “do a sabbatical” at one of them

3) already on the payroll.

Name one exception. I will wait.

[The Darkest Matter @Dr_Dark_Matter_]

I miss the days when mathematicians were peaceful, hardworking scholars, not maniacs racing to be the first to press the most expensive AI buttons and claim a Clay prize, while excluding human collaborator(s).

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

top 5 horror stories:
1. deforestation
2. pollution
3. littering
4. habitat loss
5. ai data centers

[ABC News @ABC]

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.
https://t.co/JYA4ra7cbK

[Другая планета @nihilunbounded]

WHERE IS THE SIX MANIFOLD? *thump*

It's in the document it's the quotient of the toric fan \eucal{F}—

WHERE IS THE SIX MANIFOLD? *thump*

You just have to prompt the right ques—

WHERE IS THE SIX MANIFOLD? *thump*

[Math Files @Math_files]

The sum of the reciprocals of the primes i.e. 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/5 + ... is infinite, but the sum of the reciprocals of the known primes is less than 5 and will always be so!

[Ash Jogalekar @curiouswavefn]

This from Einstein’s “The Common Element in Artistic and Scientific Experience (1921)” is beautiful:

“When the world ceases to be a stage for personal hopes, aspirations, and desires and we stand before it as free creatures full of admiration, questions, and contemplation, we enter the realm of art and science. If we describe what we see and experience in the language of logic, we do science; if we convey connections through forms inaccessible to the rational mind, but intuitively recognizable as making sense, we do art. Common to both is the loving devotion to what is beyond the personal, beyond our will.”

[M_Vidyasagar @stellensatz]

A beautiful article on whether AI can "do mathematics" by the legendary Peter Sarnak, Prof. at Princeton and Ph.D. supervisor of at least two Fields Medallists. For anyone interested in such philosophical issues, it is a must read.

https://t.co/AIa6MNPNLV

[Barto @bartonovopolis]

Randomly put on the 4K of The Batman last night. Best opening 25 minutes in a superhero movie ever?

[the butthole genie @VSBassoon]

@RadishHarmers @littmath Can you write a joke about a "paperclip maximiser" type AI but for solving open problems. The idea is it goes around killing anyone who might suggest a new problem. I'm busy rn

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

I would have enjoyed being a real-deal academic mathematician, in another world where that were possible for me. But making rich people richer is cool too. That was the beauty that drew me to the subject in the first place.

[deirdre o donovan @dm0d]

@wtgowers Who is going to understand and engage with the maths in a couple of generations if there are no human mathematicians?-it will be a language in which we have no fluency to communicate or appreciate either between ourselves or with the ai

[Sam Gregson @Samuel_Gregson]

This is now the lazy, cleverest little boy take regarding physics and it’s all over the internet.

Why?

Because it sounds deep to non experts, requires no knowledge or learning to say and plays to our anti-establishment moment.

[Daniel Whiteson @DanielWhiteson]

What do these people think "physics" is?

Do they imagine it's a finite list of unsolved hard physics problems, the ultimate homework set?

Do they think if an LLM solves them, we'll shrug and say "that's it, we have no more curiosity. physics is done"

????

[Jack Ceroni @jack_ceroni]

Geometric analysis seems to be my destiny

[Jack Ceroni @jack_ceroni]

The math AI stuff bums me out