The thing you have to understand about a Blue Tsunami is that it is the politically-engineered capitalist duopoly functioning exactly as intended. It is a pressure valve for public animus.
All this will give us is gridlock and performative Select Committee investigations preempted by pardons from Trump and maybe a slight easing of economic precarity at most. Meanwhile, the central contradiction of imperialism will just be dressed up with Land Acknowledgements & LGBTQ colors and continue apace.
Reading the comments of junior mathematicians confirms what many senior mathematicians have been warning about over the past month:
It is becoming clear that people with the intellectual ability to understand these proofs will not be interested in spending their lives training to check LLM logs.
This is the tragic side of what is happening that almost no one — except the actual mathematicians — seems to get.
Either we figure out how to keep people interested in doing mathematics, or in 20 years LLMs will have no one’s work left to recombine into new proofs, and no one interested in reading those proofs.
That would be the thermal death of mathematics.
The argument that “LLMs will read LLM math” is so shortsighted that it makes me want to cry…
Of all the negative impacts of generative AI, I think the most haunting may be the way it revealed that a significant number of people have seemingly no emotional attachment to the art they consume whatsoever.
For some reason that part in particular is really upsetting to me.
This piece points to a problem I regard as central to AI: it's being built by people who believe the purpose of life is to be productive at your job. Many of these people are, at best, confused by claims that other stuff might matter.
Absolutely diabolical. National Post puts a bullseye on Avi Lewis through the rabid ramblings of Yoni Goldstein who invokes Halakhah and Leviticus on how to deal with Jews. Writing Lewis “presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community” & other Jews are “duty-bound to step in.” This is so irresponsible. The National Post should be stripped of any government funding it receives from Canada. This is wholly negligent and irresponsible.
palo alto people are building agents for a world where everyone has 47 tasks at once while the average person is so fucking bored they’re doomscrolling during work hours