GPerson

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by GPerson 2mo ago
You seem rather aggressive so replying to you feels pointless and uncomfortable. Nonetheless, the person writes, “ Math has been almost purely arbitrary”. This is simply a misusage of the word arbitrary, which is a word with a specific mean
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by GPerson 2mo ago
It’s not marketing. This guy could have signed up for one of those hundred million dollar salaries with a phone call and did not. I know several people who have met him and everyone says he’s the genuine article. He’s actually just devoted
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The tastes and interests, and cultural pretext, of human beings are not arbitrary just because they’re not easily described.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Some of the best mathematicians in the world tried to study his work, found flaws he did not address, and somehow there’s someone every week suggesting there’s a conspiracy against this guy. It’s really baffling. AI will probably help him m
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I’m sure there were peasants in feudal times who escaped the permanent underclass by joining some army, only to get slaughtered in a pointless battle. Even if there’s some underclass society is going to keep evolving and evolving. I don’t t
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I don’t think it’s pointless to spend time trying to prove a conjecture which is ultimately false if along the way you figure out a bunch of different true variations on the conjecture, which is how mathematics actually works. This is somet
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by GPerson 2mo ago
You don’t buy the argument the open source movement has been putting out for decades about code transparency increasing freedom?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
You should give it a try. Tao is a wonderful person and is trying to help humanity.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I think it’s more that he seeks to preserve and promote human understanding of mathematics, and sees that grappling with this new technology is necessary. One reason is that for human mathematical practices and institutions to retain legiti
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by GPerson 2mo ago
How is either of those situations more or less like a hobby than the other?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I’m aware of that. I’m just polling for opinions on the meaning of vibecoding, not whether or not AI is bad.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I don’t think they’re silly, though I don’t think it’s right to vilify the end users just because the people who’ve created the technology are criminals and the technology has lots of bad effects overall. Do you think it’s silly if these pe
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I find it fulfilling to write and read code. It’s also a powerful technology. That doesn’t just change just because there’s another technology more powerful in certain ways. These are some level 0 reasons to want to read code, but there are
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The tab completion feature a lot of people were using before the term ‘vibecoding’ was coined by the AI dude is or isn’t vibecoding in your view?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
What does vibe coding mean to you? I use the term vibe code to mean software produced by conversation with an agent, with minimal or no understanding of the code / project structure by the person. Your process doesn’t sound like vibe c
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The kids who used AI and studied for a similar amount of time as the non-AI high performers apparently had similar (slightly higher) performance. The kids who used AI and did poorly used the AI to do the homework for them (this is what the
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by GPerson 2mo ago
“Remarkably elementary” in mathematics means accessible to people who have finished the first 1-3 years of grad school where you go through the canonical entry level courses in research level mathematics. There’s no reason to think Terence’
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The average viewer only actually watches something like 10 seconds of every video. It’s not like in comics or TV where you actually follow a story, though tv binges did feel to me similar to scrolling short form content. The latter led to b
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I’d bet it is. Playing Skyrim involves a least some thinking from the player. Have you ever succumbed to a scrolling binge? It’s honestly painful. You just sit there for many hours in a row not feeling fulfilled by anything. A better compar
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Earlier today I saw that Tik Tok has 2 billion monthly active users and the average user uses it for 100 minutes a day. The app is so addictive that I feel it’s not right to say the user using it every day for 100 minutes at a time is enjoy
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I wrote all this and it’s kinda disorganized but hopefully there’s something worth reading here. I think your way of thinking is the ordinary one (though you might be exceptional in your honesty). So maybe with such a demand for the opportu
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by GPerson 2mo ago
There was also a really terrible era of JavaScript frameworks coming out constantly. That all feels so quint now.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I don’t see enough people here expressing awareness of the deep societal revolution that is about to unfold. I’m grateful to Terence Tao for doing his best in this strange time to discover how human mathematics can adapt, but I’m not sure w
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by GPerson 2mo ago
My motivation to do mathematics is some combination of wanting to understand the system of mathematics deeply and enjoying the craft and puzzle of working on research problems. If I never had to publish again and the computer was 1000x bett
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The people I know who like it the most are at least aware of a lot of the problems with it. I’m surprised everyone in your friend group is uncritically enamored by it.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Huh guess I was wrong. Nice!
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Some of the games really look like obfuscated theft. E.g. Rubberhose Ruckus is clearly Cuphead, and even includes a peashooter. I don’t understand why basic ethics have gone completely out the window nowadays.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
You’ve hit your session limit
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I agree with a lot of what you’re saying except I’m still choosing to create things, knowing full-well the computer can (or will be able to) do better. I’m going to choose to create things that are interesting or challenging, and I’m going
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I’d jog around the world for a job about now.

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