Chris

ceo/cofounder @physicsgraph Fellow @ConjectureInst

[Chris @sutherlandphys]

@lucyhargreaves4 it can even be simpler than a potentially overly bureaucratic merit process. a simple recommendation from a senior scientist would do.

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

Canada’s publicly funded research programs should focus on merit as the sole criteria.

Identity politics has destroyed a lot of the academic culture we used to pride ourselves on as a nation. Just ask many academics who are afraid to speak out.

We spend $4.5 billion a year on the tri-agency research programs, including $311M a year on the Canada Research Chairs program alone. Time for a change.

[Chris @sutherlandphys]

@Eliana_Goldin makes sense! tbh it's not a trivial argument and requires some expounding upon. The book The Beginning of Infinity makes the argument beautifully.

a crude example: antibiotics. incredible solution. lead to antibiotic resistant illnesses. new problem, requiring new solution

[Paul Raymond-Robichaud @PaulRRobichaud]

If a landmark conjecture can be solved by an AI exploring known methods, it tells us that the problem did not require a new paradigm to resolve. Far from ending mathematics, AI exposes the boundary where routine calculation stops and creative exploration must begin.

[EspressoCoder @espressocoder]

Woohoo, new "Unit complete" dialog @physicsgraph nice to have an acknowledgement of a small achievement along the way. 🥳

[Phil @phillydean22]

.@physicsgraph is going to change the world. I would've killed for a site like this in my formative years.

[Chris @sutherlandphys]

@typesfast @then_there_was And he looks exactly like a mob boss

[Jeffrey Biles @JeffreyBiles]

Since this post:

* New High School Chemistry unit
* 2 new Conceptual Physics units
* Step-by-step FRQs, with partial-credit/retries
* “Explain my error” button
* Integrated Jev into internal processes
* Tons of smaller fixes, sanded edges, and small content improvements

[Aaron Stupple @astupple]

The man can write, wow.

My favorite of these criticisms is the doomer habit of shifting goalposts, from “the superintelligence will be super intelligent” to “the superintelligence will be too dumb to be able to change its mind.”

Another basic contradiction is “the superintelligence will have unimaginable powers” and “I know the probability of what it will do.”

Pinker also mentions the alarmists’ disregard for the collateral damage of their efforts. It’s always a rounding error to the existential risk people. Which, fine - but it’s not a rounding error to us, so they need to account for their damage, or at least take it seriously.

[Chris @sutherlandphys]

and the weekly (this is just Monday because it refreshes every Sunday!)

270 focused minutes of work in a day is good stuff...but beatable

[Chris @sutherlandphys]

leaderboard really coming in nicely...getting beasted on my own platform is a good thing

[Chris @sutherlandphys]

In case you guys didn't know PhysicsGraph is indeed cooking shipping like crazy and having record usage every week

Feel like I don't say that enough on here

[Jeffrey Biles @JeffreyBiles]

Another set of performance improvements released 5 minutes ago. Thank you for your patience this morning.

[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

Imagine thinking super abundance and wealth resulting from AI (and say the creation of fusion power) would cause CEOs to say “let’s fire almost everyone” rather than “let’s award most bonuses while expanding and hiring way more to do more of this great stuff”.

[Jeffrey Biles @JeffreyBiles]

Designed to give LLM graders the data they crave. Hopefully should eliminate a couple frustrating edge cases that vision models struggled with!

[Jeffrey Biles @JeffreyBiles]

Internal tools getting a boost

[Jeffrey Biles @JeffreyBiles]

🚨🚨 New release! 🚨🚨

High School Chemistry, Unit 8: Acids and Bases

This also doubles as the first half of the AP Chemistry Acids and Bases unit, which we will complete later this fall.

[Tom Lynch @Tom_A_Lynch]

No reason to keep going

Tell that to everyone who doesnt have access

Everyone who dies of cancer waiting on the production of a cure

Everyone poor who could be educated by simulated tutors

No reason to keep going is a refrian for those who have a lot already

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

The latest MrBeast video has him building an entire village - housing, a school, well and plumbing system, power grid, play areas, farm, marketplace, and community center.

And the entire time he's talking about how it's because the kids in the village used to be stuck in child labor for cacao, so that we can eat chocolate. He's paying for five years of school meals for the kids, because free meals makes kids more likely to attend school rather than working.

He actually talks about child labor in chocolate *all the time* and his company Feastables is genuinely much more ethical than the big chocolate companies, pays living wages to farmers and is part of a traceable/open supply chain project.

Regardless of whether you like his content, the guy is doing incredible things across the world and using his money to try to make a difference. I find it pretty remarkable, especially when compared with the incredibly shallow stuff that most other rich influencers spend their money on.