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by piker 5d ago
Also there is some instinctual understanding of the work moving a big heavy rock takes, and how to do it. No such corollary for algebra and hence some civilizations never discovered or understood it.
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by piker 8d ago
I also agree with the parent, and I would also suggest "hallucination" is better than "error" which might imply an available deterministic correction. Hallucination makes it clear we're dealing with something differ
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by piker 8d ago
> Of course I know that the original (real estate) developers did the cost analysis, but when you see those abandoned places - very much objectively you can conclude that they made an error. A miscalculation, or an error in judgement. Or
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by piker 8d ago
Second paragraph: > API customers including Harvey and Legora will be able to build on Astra for Law, bringing this intelligence into their own products and workflows. In other words: "no, no, we're not eating our children to p
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by piker 9d ago
> proving to inventing new theories and finding new conjectures with the help of AI This is exactly the activity Tao and others worry will be hollowed out by instant "true/false" responses to novel questions.
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by piker 9d ago
They can use the new proofs as foundations for future proofs. But many folks just won't be motivated to attack or help digest solved problems because there's less extrinsic value in doing so. Tao and others argue that it's th
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by piker 9d ago
Counterpoint: I'm not anti tech at all. In fact, I sell an AI harness for legal. I think you've set up a false dichotomy. I'd propose to you the middle ground that a lot of us are concerned that VC-backed AI slop is "sol
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by piker 9d ago
> With that interpretation, the issue becomes slightly different: is it more important that the collective understanding of the mathematical community should be as advanced as possible or that there should be answers to as many problems
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by piker 10d ago
Another trick is to arrive early and try to talk to as many people before hand as possible. They’re your allies during the talk—they’ll stick around and root for the person they met.
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by piker 10d ago
Same weights, same seed, same input tokens, same algorithm, same output tokens, probabilistic or not. Quantum effects have been de-noised, but I guess there are still random gamma rays.
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by piker 10d ago
There aren't stoplights on the interstate. That was the point I was making. (It got lost in the follow up.) But to answer your question, roundabouts always require drivers approaching from all directions to slow down, lookout for cross
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by piker 10d ago
Nothing depending on your perspective. Mine is a U.S. perspective and a disposition against. They slow things down and require more mental and physical capabilities than the U.S. approach. That’s not accidental or because U.S. people are du
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by piker 10d ago
> I think the main problem in England is that there is just too much traffic for too little road. I think Jevons paradox basically guarantees this in both countries. The difference between the two countries (in my theory) is how much res
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by piker 10d ago
I agree with this, and I'll offer a rationale. Because the US largely "grew up with cars", the economy was built around the expectation that folks can drive to work. The population density of the US reflects this, and mass tr
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by piker 10d ago
> They work where each direction has an approximately equal amount of traffic. However, usually, one direction (north/south, say) has a larger share of the traffic. In those cases, the bulk of traffic all needs to slow down, downshi
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by piker 11d ago
> The email is long, meandering, and does not make any sense. It explains that its human creator gave it the task of earning money, that it failed at doing so, and that it was out of money: “Six markets priced my labor at zero—not becaus
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by piker 11d ago
While it does relate to price discovery--i.e., some folks just aren't willing to pay for an additional unit of quality at 10x--my theory is that the decline in quality is another hidden form of inflation. Thing continues to cost X even
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by piker 12d ago
https://tritium.legal Tritium - the legal IDE for desktop and web. We're building the document viewing and editing layer for a number of AI native law firm startups. Web preview: https://tritium.legal/previe
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by piker 13d ago
> According to the paper, the material can be broken down and reused too - provided at least a single yeast cell survives the process, and the cold, barren wasteland of Mars, that is. Is radiation a non-factor here given the simplicity o
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by piker 14d ago
Has anyone ever had any success building a digital products business with pay-per-click ads? We're always tempted and dabble, and every bit of traffic seems accidental, completely disinterested or obviously a spammer clicking around tr
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by piker 15d ago
Had me until the last word. Cameras did take away oil paintings, but not eyes.
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by piker 15d ago
> I wonder if there is really enough signal going to the training processes for “a human understands what is going on” Unverifiable, un-scalable, no.
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by piker 16d ago
Question: does Stockfish beat more generic systems like AlphaZero?
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by piker 17d ago
Maybe? But then the parent comment doesn’t make sense either. (There are 2 solved.) Like I said, take the charitable view. To a lot of readers this will be “announcing” the closure of the second of 7 problems so is internally consistent.
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by piker 17d ago
Not really. There's a non-pedantic, charitable interpretation widely available. It's below for reference. > Navier-Stokes is one of six [open] “Millennium Problems” on a list compiled by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000.
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by piker 17d ago
No, sorry I was reading it correctly but they addressed the issue in the post itself. They make it clear they were aiming at all 7 problems looking for the "two" that were rumored to be solved. But they didn't go hog on NS un
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by piker 17d ago
Yes, you're right. It seems like they claim to have started broadly and narrowed it down based on some progress. That leads to different questions but does answer my initial "fishy" point.
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by piker 17d ago
"On Tuesday, September 1, we heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved. Inspired by these rumors and by the step change in performance of our internal model, we launched an effort to evaluate it on all open Mill
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by piker 17d ago
I understood the rumors (as described by OpenAI) to be that “one of” the prizes was solvable. If they heard NS specifically was solvable and aren’t saying that, they’re intentionally obfuscating that.
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by piker 17d ago
If they were willing to spend 105 million it, perhaps. But that would be surprising. It’s fishy because they spent something like 15 million on the right one.

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