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by bonoboTP 19d ago
Last summer Grog was still celebrated and admired for bravely piercing animals with a spear and bringing home the meat. But now Goong made this newfangled arrow and bow thing and any cowardly fool can now shoot animals from a distance. Grog
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
The post is not by Tao but by Grant Sanderson, maker of the 3blue1brown YouTube channel.
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
I'm not sure that this new approach will be AI-resistant. Why would people not use AI to help in creating the "motivated explanations". Maybe they can't be one shotted today, but AI also makes this easier. Assume in 2 ye
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
This issue really separates the wheat from the chaff. The dirty secret is that a lot of academic published work contains errors but the authors also have fragile egos. It reminds me of when Data Colada exposed someone for fraud and they acc
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
I'm not sure how prevalent it really is, but there is a mini-genre on social media of waiters and waitresses being baffled by this phenomenon. I'd say it's a natural continuation of the erosion of social skills and the comfor
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
Keep doing things that people want to pay for. If this becomes impossible, the world will face a much broader political crisis than "mathematics careers". How concerned were you when manufacturing industries died in certain region
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
Do you buy stuff made in factories of do you open your wallet for everything handmade craft products? Or it's fine as long as craftsmen's jobs got replaced, just not when yours? Do you ever use a self-checkout? An ATM? Or do you p
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
And then you realize AI was made by humans... What I mean is that "can be done by humans" is ill defined. Are you allowed to use pencil and paper? That's not part of your body? Do you have to be strapped into a coffin for it
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
Apparently, now even in Michelin star fine dining restaurants, people no longer ask the sommelier for recommendations, just take a photo of the menu and ask AI. The something that's lost is the human communication of course. Has been h
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
You just dislike their taste and the fact that they don't subscribe to your political crusade.
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
But they became uncool when the iPod and mp3 players came out. Nobody felt sentimental about VHS artifacts either, and now it's a genz aesthetic or something. These things cycle, like I'm sure some old folks miss the radio hiss an
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
Making stuff that's bad on purpose is annoying, like acting retarded ironically. Make good stuff or just spend little effort. Putting in effort to look low effort is just trying to be special when you're not.
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
Some level of uniformity is fine and indeed the norm. It was uniform back when posters were hand painted, eg 19th century world fairs or zoo openings or theater posters. They look pretty similar. Carneval posters looked similar. The expecta
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
I can't help but like the posters for the sheer reason that they annoy some annoying people who have a visceral reaction to the concept of AI.
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
I think most people could not get this conjecture proven if given infinite time at the keyboard with the same chatbot. He demonstrated much more initiative and problem solving instinct than what a large majority of people are capable of. Ha
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
That's true. Since ornamentation is effort-signaling, it may get dropped once it's cheap. Same thing that happened with clothing and home decor. The functional part may be beneficial though, even on utilitarian grounds. But yes, a
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
How much effort was put into these things pre-AI? None of these are big professional things, just local events. Those never had professional posters.
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
I think this (low effort posters) rather signals to me that they have the right priorities. A true professional poster would tell me that it's some commercial cash grab instead of real local enthusiasts making something normal.
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
The alternative is WordArt, or just black on white Comic Sans with some bolding and font size variations with bad ClipArt. These small scale events would never hire a professional. I'm old enough to remember that people also complained
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by bonoboTP 19d ago
My main thought is that he was performing something general here that is actually valuable and hard for a large proportion of humanity. It's like when Google search was a difficult thing, or troubleshooting a PC. what he is able to do
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by bonoboTP 20d ago
It's not like new releases come with fully mapped out capability scores for exactly the aspects that you're interested in. There are benchmarks, but reality is often different. It's simply unknown to humanity how well each mo
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by bonoboTP 20d ago
> Science funding was different back then. It was a rich men hobby, something done for amusement or to impress other rich men. This is not the full story, but fits today's cartoon history caricature. In reality, there were also sala
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by bonoboTP 22d ago
AI is much less gatekeeping and much more welcoming for beginners than human experts are in general. It has infinite patience to break things down for your level of understanding. So AI has less gatekeeping which I like when I'm gateke
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by bonoboTP 22d ago
Which AI company is selling access to reliable verbatim copies of websites? I don't mean "it may regurgitate a paragraph", but as a reliable service where you can repeatably get website content snapshots to a reliability leve
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by bonoboTP 22d ago
No, I see this argument repeated all the time in these threads. "It will just give true/false, while humans need intuitive explanations". Why will the AI only give true/false? Where did this assumption come from? The nes
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by bonoboTP 23d ago
Gatekeeping is a human universal. Even those who preach maximum inclusion do exclude plenty, of course there is always explanation why that doesn't count. If you try to run any community you quickly learn the importance of gatekeeping.
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by bonoboTP 23d ago
I won't understand it, but can benefit from it in better data structures with proven invariants, faster algorithms, convergence guarantees for some iterative computations, better practical linear algebra and matrix factorizations, deri
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by bonoboTP 23d ago
Sciences don't have goals, people have goals and they differ. Some are fans of pure math as a kind of religious or almost erotic activity in elegance and beauty, others are application minded. Some are in it for the community and outre
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by bonoboTP 23d ago
> > models better at writing clean proofs and explaining what they're doing to humans. That's the end of it. > The assumption here is that the true/false of the theorem is the important outcome You're replying t
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by bonoboTP 23d ago
And even then, the other examiner will only fail the candidate under egregiously extreme conditions. Rather, if the supervisor wants to pass someone who is unfit but not egregiously, this will just erode the supervisor's reputation amo

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