The AI folks who so gleefully + without any shred of doubt announce someone's impending joblessness tend to be emasculated and humiliated little nitwits incapable of noticing that they are wearing their overwhelming insecurities and violent retribution fantasies on their sleeve
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Birds of prey either look like the most fierce and deadly creature imaginable or they look like a sad puppy who just got yelled at for peeing on the carpet
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I really do believe this btw. Every time I felt really frustrated with a concept, the problem was always, every single time, resolved via familiarity. It's so true and so well known that competition math and undergrad logic books will often explicitly say it in their introduction
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"Are there people who are naturally good at math and others who are hopelessly bad at math? I don’t think so. I think everyone has an innate mathematical talent."
— Terence Tao
What’s interesting is the argument that he gives: ⤵️
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Philosophers: logic is the foundation of mathematics.
Mathematicians:
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Astoria the Wild Turkey strikes a pose on Main Street, Roosevelt Island. Passersby recognize her and say hello, and many stop to take photos. 🦃 ❤️
As powerful and beautiful as it is, I don't feel that math is the unique global maximizer of human knowledge and experience. Lots of essential lessons for being human come from elsewhere. I am always surprised though at how math will creep into other areas of my life
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When my colleague in the set theory research discord asks for projects that will improve rather than worsen set theory's public reputation:
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Astoria the Wild Turkey shows her gorgeous plumage in her favorite garden on Roosevelt Island. 🦃 ❤️
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Winning a game of chess: I am a being of pure logic… pure rationale… I should try out for Mensa… I should call the pentagon and see if they need my services…
Losing a game of chess: This game is essentially a toy. Oooo I moved my horsey. The one with the pointy hat goes eoou
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friend is a medical illustrator
few years ago, we were wondering when AI could do her job — getting the details right is important in this use case
since then, she's been noticing more and more news articles and such using AI generated medical images
Note the 3rd forearm bone
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you know who's never been a threat to my job? a competitive programmer lol
OpenAI o3 is 2727 on Codeforces which is equivalent to the #175 best human competitive coder on the planet.
This is an absolutely superhuman result for AI and technology at large.
The way someone in AI uses the term "stochastic parrot" -- i.e. whether they are using it derisively towards the originators of the term -- is such a good proxy for grift/reactionism/ai mysticism/lots of other features
