freehorse

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by freehorse 7d ago
The funding on mathematics is already one of the lowest accross science [0, 1], and theoretical math funding is probably much smaller than the applied math one already, so that's not even close to how much funding theoretical math gets
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by freehorse 7d ago
1/3 of articles warrantying such a comment means it is still important information. If it was 100% of the articles I would agree that it gives no information, but with 1/3 one cannot claim it does not contribute information.
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by freehorse 9d ago
AI can also introduce its own "bad friction", or it (ppl?) can bypass good friction without necessarily directly be removed by ai, eg bikeshedding, slowly pivoting towards directions and problems that ai is better in tackling, bec
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by freehorse 9d ago
That's a good point. And yeah I got the term from Tao, as I had not described it this way before but I think it elucidates well the issue. The problem imo is that, from a purely psychological/phenomenological perspective, there is
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by freehorse 9d ago
Imo judgemental as in starting from "my life experience" and getting to that's "how to live" is a reason to dismiss it as an argument, as others may have different life experiences and yours is not universal.
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by freehorse 9d ago
I meant about the title as used by the author, not the one who linked it here. But in any case I said it was a joke about not giving many sex related details in the article.
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by freehorse 9d ago
Technological progress is not bottlenecked by most of the millennium prize problems or erdos problems per se, or most of the rest open problems in theoretical math, ie that merely knowing the solution of them will help applications in some
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by freehorse 9d ago
It may have been flagged as the title being misleading, as it did not really present as many details around the sex part as the title suggested. Jokes aside it would have probably flown a bit better by removing the sex from the title, as th
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by freehorse 9d ago
I guess what OP wanted to bring up (as I understood) is that if somebody says "I am straight" it does not usually induce people turning the internet off. But in any case they are free to choose that and that does not really matter
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by freehorse 9d ago
Well OP claiming they get "bothered, upset and irritated" by people having "rape kinks" and "pitying them" sounds kind of judgemental to me. Same goes with "don't be degenerate" for sexual behavi
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by freehorse 9d ago
If we are talking about pure/theoretical mathematics, then the vast majority of the problems people pose and solve have at best tangential relationship with applications, and a big part even is only related to other math problems. Of c
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by freehorse 9d ago
> what do people do when their labour is not required any longer I don't think this is the main issue (if at all) discussed here or in the field medalist letter. If anything, the majority of pure mathematics graduates are absorbed f
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by freehorse 10d ago
No, EA etc decide to ship adware launchers and steam distributes them. Plenty studios do not ship adware launchers, and steam does not inject adware into them or anything. Even if steam gets percentage from the ads or whatever (I dont even
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by freehorse 10d ago
I say "see you in a minute" to mean "see you in a bit". What did Scarlett Johansson mean by that in that movie?
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by freehorse 10d ago
I had not heard it before (or if I did I did not interpret it correctly, eg if one told me "see you in a minute" I would interpret it as "see you in a bit". But there is this podcast discussing it in 2021, and it comes f
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by freehorse 10d ago
Not really. In many of them the president is elected through the parliament (which is democratic in the indirect sense only). In quite a few of them they still have kings/queens instead of presidents. So they do put the ones holding th
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by freehorse 10d ago
Yeah, good to make it clear that militarization of europe is what is actually debated, not democracy.
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by freehorse 10d ago
Not necessarily. One can eg want more power to the actually elected part of the EU structure and less power to the commission. Imo electing or not a president does not necessarily help with democracy, as the US example shows. And in europe
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by freehorse 11d ago
This was not the case for the hugging face hacks, as in those the agents hacked hugging face specifically on purpose, and they were trying to mask commands indicating they were had breached the "sandbox".
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by freehorse 11d ago
> valve whole business model is invasive drm As much as I like gog and their game distribution model and buy most games there, this is a huge exaggeration and actually false. A game studio/publisher does not have to use DRM in steam
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by freehorse 11d ago
Yeah, that's usually classified as applied math, not theoretical, though.
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by freehorse 11d ago
It is 21.6 Wh capacity and charges at up to 45W, so it should take less than half an hour to fully charge from zero. Not sure where you got the 3-5 hours from?
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by freehorse 11d ago
It has a 21.6 Wh battery. You can easily get a power bank 3+ times this capacity, thus can last 4x longer. If anything, I would rather have that weight in my pocket or backpack than on my head, all things considered.
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by freehorse 14d ago
Formal verification, cryptography and the like is far from what the vast majority of theoretical mathematicians are doing (if those who do them even see themselves as that vs computer scientists or applied mathematicians) especially when it
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by freehorse 14d ago
It is really not complicated at all. And if tao's post is a bit vague, the letter signed by many mathematicians is imo very clear. AI can be used to advance/deepen understanding, or it can be used to superficially go settle a whol
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by freehorse 14d ago
Applications do not care about 99.999% of theoretical math production anyway. And especially most of the big results in theoretical math nowadays are really inconsequential in applications.
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by freehorse 14d ago
> his prose is directly implying that evil superintelligent AIs are deliberately writing obscure proofs in order to harm the community of human mathematicians That is probably the wildest misinterpretation of sth I have ever read here. M
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by freehorse 17d ago
But whether astra itself is agi or not does not change anything in this argument or discussion of whether openai is good steward or not. The issue with agents running amok was not as much the direct consequences of them to huggingface etc (
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by freehorse 17d ago
> A linear fit on a logarithmic y-axis implies exponential growth. The fit on the graph is exponential, which makes it exp(exp(x)) growth. But it is not clear why it should be that, or linear, or logarithmic, which is what I meant. Covid
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by freehorse 19d ago
> That's not my site. You brought the figure as an argument, so I assumed that was your argument? If not, what was your argument then? I see a (super)exponential fit, but I don't see why that's better than a logarithmic fi

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