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Davidzheng··on Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)
To get to the other side, obviously.
Davidzheng··on The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
I think anthropic one is edited by humans, OpenAI drop just looks like how Astra writes (i know it's probably a different model producing this but still)
Davidzheng··on The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
Maybe it's arrogant to say as someone working in pure math but I highly doubt this is the cause
Davidzheng··on Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean
Makes me sad that the homotopical foundation people never got their shit together and now formalization is so mature but it's still done in set theoretic foundations.
Davidzheng··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
they were never meant to stay as manufacturers on the sidelines
Davidzheng··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
I mean, the models (starting with Bel clearly and Astra probably--though Astra probably is worse than top humans in some areas) are superhuman at math.
Davidzheng··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
I don't understand. The AI-math guidance counsel has recently explicitly argued against what you say in paragraph two, and which is why for the Kakeya problem there was no group formed. The different communities have given different suggestions. I'm not sure how much I agree with the first paragraph either given these facts.
Davidzheng··on Securing our frontier model training environment
I think it should be allowed yes. I don't think our strategy is hoping the agents never learn that misalignment is an option.
Davidzheng··on Securing our frontier model training environment
The answer, as Noam Brown explained in the Dwarkesh interview, is that it is not emergent at all. They carefully selected reward functions in RL to incentivize cooperation in the last year in order to develop multi-agent systems which are faster and more reliable. However, I guess after it is baked into the model to cooperate, they can sometimes override instructions not to.
Davidzheng··on LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
I highly doubt this will happen.
Davidzheng··on The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]
depends on what you think shrink means. If you mean decreasing, that's false even eventually.
Davidzheng··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
I have to say, if you looked at the graphs of the last reports, 1.5C was never going to happen.
Davidzheng··on PHP session.upload_progress heap UAF (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
yeah agreed.
Davidzheng··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
But then you can start with a solution and try to make an understandable one.
Davidzheng··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Happy to hear that yes! I hope more people do learn about math from this !
Davidzheng··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
If you had halfway to one of these papers you would be anyhow be in the top echelons of math phds so probably you have less to worry than most!
Davidzheng··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
So they can try to advance it even more
Davidzheng··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
I'm not sure a superintelligence needs "funds" to take over the world.
Davidzheng··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
I'm sorry, but what?

If you appreciate beauty and don't care about competing then these releases are purely good. Because you are not competing, so you aren't hurt by speed. And you are appreciating so you can appreciate more stuff.

sorry if I am misunderstanding (probably I am)

Davidzheng··on With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
I think now it's a good time for people to work on the Riemann hypothesis. There are actually a lot of ideas, no one knows if any of them goes anywhere--but I don't think it's completely impossible to make progress especially with new tools haha.
Davidzheng··on Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics
You're not alone, even among mathematicians.
Davidzheng··on AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
I do think something does happen/change when we reach superintelligence.
Davidzheng··on GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
Maybe 4 year olds already have the brain power to learn to drive if they so desired.
Davidzheng··on The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
I think I'm mostly on your side (also I believed early it would get here), but what does it mean to "solve the field"? I'm pretty much as bullish as you get on AI but I'm sure I can come up with questions AI cannot solve. I think the space of problems in math is so large and the distribution of proof lengths so heavy-tailed, there's probably no way without dyson-sphereing the sun to solve all easy to state problems.
Davidzheng··on The Claude Delusion
surely the LLM can do that. It is RL'd against some reward, if the known strategies are clearly suboptimal with easy improvement, it'll find it most likely
Davidzheng··on The k-server conjecture is true
It's honestly just good at math. Even at theory building i wouldn't put it below 90 percentile. Just on some things it's superhuman already and some not yet.
Davidzheng··on AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
Absolutely not the right way to deal with a rogue super intelligence. At a minimum it could implement some dead man switch when it's out and knows about impending kill switch
Davidzheng··on Aligned to whom?
I believe this is false. They hack bc hacking has nontrivial initial probability (within range of behavior seen in pretraining) and that probability is being heavily rewarded in RL post training
Davidzheng··on We must pace the frontier
Yeah I agree, probably can't survive off regular consumer hardware or most non AI datacenters.
Davidzheng··on We must pace the frontier
Market equilibrium probably tends to give 100% resource to ai building bc it leads to most returns and all human labor goes to zero.

Caveat I know nothing about economics lol--but this is my uninformed opinion.

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