Rick Dikeman

Never for money, always for love.

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"Many of the world’s most pressing crises trace back to just a handful of...individuals, while the work of repair requires a vast, distributed, often invisible effort sustained by millions over decades. It is so, so much easier to break than to build." -- Angus Hervey

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3/3: AI tools are like taking a helicopter to drop you off at the site. You miss all the benefits of the journey itself. You just get right to the destination, which actually was only just a part of the value of solving these problems.

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2/3: Tao - These problems are like distant locations that you would hike to. And in the past, you would have to go on a journey. You can lay down trail markers that other people could follow, and you could make maps.

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1/2: Wong - You’ve written that when human mathematicians approach a new problem, regardless of whether they succeed, they produce insights that others in the field can build on—something AI-based proofs don’t provide. How come?

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2/2 - "They’re being lazy. It's easier to predict the end of the world than to wrestle with the truth, which is that some things are scary, some things are going great, and most of it is just really complicated." - Fix the News

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1/2 - "There's an entire genre out there now about living in the worst timeline, about how fascism is inevitable and the kids are doomed. Almost all of it is created by people cosplaying the apocalypse from positions of extraordinary comfort." - Fix the News

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"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -- Albert Einstein

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Ulysses Pact: Tying yourself to the mast before you go into the sea of sirens, not because you’re weak but because you’re strong enough now to know that you’ll be weak in the future.

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"The old [aid] model of rich countries writing checks & calling the shots is dead. The new one is messier, slower, harder to celebrate. But it’s being built by the people who actually live with it." -- https://t.co/earJcQwmZ7

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"In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem." -- George Carlin

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"Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us". ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

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"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one." — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

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7/7: If you think humanity's still doomed, Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years.
-- https://t.co/cj9KGIbdY5

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6/7: If you think humanity's still doomed, Open defecation has declined by two-thirds since 2000.
-- https://t.co/cj9KGIbdY5

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5/7: If you think humanity's still doomed, 23 million more girls finish high school each year compared to a decade ago.
-- https://t.co/cj9KGIbdY5

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4/7: If you think humanity's still doomed, In the past 25 years around 1.9 million deaths and 4 million HIV infections have been averted among pregnant women and children.
-- https://t.co/cj9KGIbdY5

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3/7: If you think humanity's still doomed, Safe water is available to 2.1 billion more people compared to 20 years ago.
-- https://t.co/cj9KGIbdY5

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2/7: If you think humanity's still doomed, Since 2000, the number of children with stunting has declined by 40%.
-- https://t.co/cj9KGIbdY5

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1/7: If you think humanity's still doomed, a reminder from UNICEF…
Since 1990, annual under-five child mortality has declined by 60%.
-- https://t.co/cj9KGIbdY5

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“I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.” - Albert Einstein