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> Proceed to link to a non-constructive proof
Why are mathematicians like this?
- non generative hierarchical architecture (see LeCun JEPA)
- mixing deep learning with symbolic methods (usually search over token or latent space, it can also be a coupling with symbolic engines. Coupling LLMs with wolfram was a very early example)
- ability to perform unbounded computation per token inside a deep network. Something like Universal Transformers
- A strong “degrowth” orientation based on a reduction of the demand, because steel production emits CO2. It seems to be the core message. It doesn’t address the issue the author himself raise that most steel is used for machinery or buildings
- A digression which tries to find an additional reason to reduce steel production: reducing potential war output. If someone needs two reasons for something it usually smells fishy, plus I would love to hear what the Ukrainians and NATO members have to say about reducing the already failing western arm production.
Choosing the A100 environment is required though
Also I personally think you are under a misconception. Commoditised high quality AI tutors would increase variance/inequality of outcomes, not decrease it. As it would increase the learning rate of gifted individuals even more drastically than the one of the general population.
The more edtech improves and becomes cheaper, the more the limits of individuals will be set by their biological constraints. Which are mostly genetics
The basic assumption that the two situations are similar is just… false
1. Age distribution would look like an inverted pyramid instead of a pyramid
2. The geographical, racial/ethnical and cultural demographics would also look like the totally different. The share of global population of the global south, which is currently highly dysfunctional, would be drastically more important, especially in the younger age groups.
Note that the increase of wealth of the “third world” is mainly due to China / India, followed a bit by Indonesia / Bangladesh / Vietnam. Nearly all of them have already a TFR < 2.1
Other countries’ economies even lost complexity and the share of their economies that are basically commodity exports increased
From my own experience, in France, both of those assumptions are heavily violated. It can vary depending of the type of immigration though, I bet the story is different for California