Will Lancer

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@postagixyz @elonmusk @EMostaque @OpenAI where is their paper

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@Mi_Arya_ @nrehiew_ idk honestly, seems like a silly thing to spend one's time on. this post was a counter-example to a specific suggestion to the number ig

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@Mi_Arya_ @nrehiew_ exactly lmao. it's just a cute random theorem about the number of critical points in the potential produced by n point charges

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

Weinberg GR done, and Weinberg QFT vol. 3 has been transformed into two-component spinor notation!

Repo: https://t.co/2guenSDtV6

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@r1cc1r1ch @OpenAI @mistral i'm not sure--haven't used mistral. but yes, most models can do this easily. the problem is coordination and verification of more difficult symbols. really it took until 5.6 to be able to do this without it being an annoying struggle.

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

All volumes of Weinberg's QFT are now typeset into modern LaTeX with better notation (e.g. Dirac notation for state vectors). Enjoy!

Link: https://t.co/2guenSDtV6

Thanks to @OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra for the hard work.

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@BahramShakerin you could do both of these things right now if you wanted to.

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@BahramShakerin this makes zero sense.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

At the core of our mission is working through how to ensure increasingly powerful AI benefits everyone.

We believe that, at some point in the future, AI acceleration for frontier model development may be so high that the world will need to pace the rate of AI advancement.

We hope to contribute to work led by the U.S. government, alongside other labs and the open-source community, to develop the tools and mechanisms that could make that possible.

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[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@XiYin137 Hm, ok. I misunderstood then. The distinction of what vs. why is clear to me in certain scenarios, e.g. in the spirit of Nima’s “[X] Cheers for Shut Up and Calculate!” talks, but in other scenarios not so much. It seems like you are saying something broader than Nima was, no?

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@XiYin137 I am slightly confused. How should grad students practically take this advice, i.e. what are concrete actions that we can take to implement this?

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@XiYin137 I see, thanks. How do you advise students on whether or not to invest the time to understand something vs. just take it on faith? It seems like understanding things on a deep level is essential to progress in research, and that taking many things on faith would harm you.

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@2oovy this is tuff

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@himanshustwts It just kind of sucked honestly

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@theojaffee Yes. And basically all graduate homework too.

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@martinmbauer is it non-trivially true that there are infinitely many ways to change multiple constants to arrive at a life-permitting universe? if so, what are they? this is news to me.

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

Just typeset Weinberg's QFT 1 in modern LaTeX and implemented a number of notation fixes, e.g. Dirac notation. Done entirely with GPT 5.6 High--enjoy!

Link: https://t.co/rY3NVDxW3V

PS: this cost me four usage resets, and I am now out of usage for the week...

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@emuse1955 I’m sorry that you’ve had to experience this Ethan. I think it would be useful to stop engaging with these people—they are clearly bad apples, and it’s obvious to those who aren’t intellectually and morally blind. Responding to those who cast stones at you only gratifies them.

[Will Lancer @wmlancer]

@jkdavis89 @ThoughtfulSaint @LukeFHan @emuse1955 true, but 1. not about this specific topic, and 2. the fact that you talked to someone about something similar in the past doesn’t mean that you’re not currently dodging them. Also, 3. Jacob’s response is plainly ridiculous and completely misses Ethan’s actual criticisms.