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bamboozledon OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

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bamboozledon OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

Are you going to be doing the work to verify the results ? Will you just expecting other people to wade through the flood and reap the benefits later on?

bamboozledon OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

The problem isn't just that the papers aren't fun to read. The problem is that a lot of the research that goes into solving these issues leads to other discovers, new fields to explore and people have to develop new approaches to solve them. The other part of it is, the quality and the enjoyment of working on these problems leads people to find new and other interest problems to work on.

If you just strip mine the answers and Sam Altmans magic button solves 100/100 problems, what's next? Who is left to come up with a new interesting question for the magic button to solve?

Lastly, life and the present moment is all there is, if there is no enjoyment in anything we do, then what's the point of all the "living for ever" Altman et al want to achieve.

We will live forever to read boring papers generated by LLMs? Literally sounds like an eternal hell.

bamboozledon OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

So OpenAI should be able to flood the world with AI pollution and ask scientists and mathematicians to wade through it all and tell us if there is any sense in it, then sit back and wait for them to report in?

Nice idea.

bamboozledon OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

Look forward to seeing an LLM write something well, that will truly be a breakthrough in the field.

bamboozledon The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

Festool is such a great company that makes some amazing stuff, case in point, the example you provided.

bamboozledon 'The eels were climbing out of the water to die'

Respectfully, what a load of shit?

In Australia all the regulations exist and the waste management is top notch, insanely easily and fairly cheap.

The solution is electing a decent government.

bamboozledon 'The eels were climbing out of the water to die'

Japan is crazy like this, in the countryside it's almost impossible to dispose of things easily. All through the autumn after rice harvest the fields just smell like burning plastic because it's just the easiest / cheapest way to get rid of it all.

Construction waste is also a major issue, insanely difficult to dispose of.

bamboozledon OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

Vibing, the literal definition of it.

bamboozledon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Does worrying about something improve your situation?

bamboozledon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

My point was that it’s It worth worrying about. Not that we should fight / have rights

bamboozledon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

A doomer is someone who believes doom is inevitable or highly likely, I'm not saying that, I'm just saying "being concerned" will probably get you nothing in return and this tech is getting developed no matter what.

The only way it will stop is if the wealthy / powerful people feel threatened by it, properly threatened.

bamboozledon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Purportedly due to AI, also a good reason to lay off people if you're company wants to save money but you don't want to spook investors.

bamboozledon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Sounds like that's going to be next week no ?

bamboozledon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Why would the trick have any "origins", isn't this model creating new techniques never before seen or imagined?

bamboozledon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

What's the point of being concerned?

We're not going to stop it because of the money involved and once we're dead, it won't matter anyway, might as well just enjoy life until you're done.

We're going to get AI'd to the max, whether or not we like it or not, might as well just go with it.

bamboozledon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Not sure I agree with this take, but we're going to find out either way.

Have you ever heard of an S curve? Things will develop rapidly, then equalize. If they don't, we're at the singularity and I guess the end of time as we know it.

But I guess really bad things happen, cancer, radiation poisoning, torture, people have died in really horrendous ways, and I guess dying from some horrendous AI side effects is possible too. Yay.

bamboozledon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Ask OpenAI for money when you don't have a job or future?

I guess the only answer is to adapt with the tools. If we can't do that, then yeah, we're in trouble.

bamboozledon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

The rapid development of extremely dangerous bio-weapons?

bamboozledon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

The beginning of what?

bamboozledon The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse

If there are no good candidates, you know what to do big dog. Step up.

bamboozledon The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse

Like you said, it's a very red state, so I guess these young men voted for these people in the first place?

This is the paradox of it all, disenfranchised people voting against their own best interests, all the time. This is populism, this is 2026. yay.

bamboozledon The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists

Mosquitoes are fucking evil.

They're not evil, they have zero idea about the consequences of their actions. I think this viewpoint is why people are hesitant to just make things go instinct because people don't like them. Yes there might be good scientific / humanitarian reasons for it, but mosquitoes "being evil" isn't one of them.

bamboozledon Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague

Too bad you're not condemning the live animal / wet market trade because from that we've had SARS, H5N1, H7N9 and Covid19, so are you fairly confident the wet markets are doing a public good or just condemning research labs for some reason?

Do you think bird flu came from a lab?

Chinese authorities considered to crack down on these markets before Covid 19 but didn't...because the markets are a major source of income for the peasant class in China so it's politically dangerous to do it because it would put millions out of their businesses.

bamboozledon Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague

Scientists have narrowed it down to the area in the market where the corona virus was first detected, what are you on about?

SARS-CoV-2–positive environmental samples were spatially clustered around vendors selling live mammals.

Also don't forget other pandemics have some from wet markets too. Bird flu and SARS. Do you think they were also lab leaks?

bamboozledon Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

Of course it means you will feel compelled to get a new Mac and upgrade your storage next time too. Coincidence.

bamboozledon AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war

The best way to solve this is to just get rid of Nuclear bombs, I get it's almost an impossible task but man, we're sitting on a literal time bomb.

bamboozledon LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

He still contributed, a lot.

I don't really hold a grudge, I just think he's done it, running around yelling about it probably is going to change anything. The psychopaths runs the show now.

He introduced the tech and right now, it's looking extremely unlikely anyone is going to slow down because of anything he says.

bamboozledon In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults

There was far less risk to cities before social media algorithms sent the world fucking mad and helped get a total psychopath into the oval office and tore apart the world order and globalism.

But yeah, it's looking like state sponsored terrorism is back on the menu for those in cities, once everyone moves to the countries, small communities can be targeted by random drone attacks by Russians or something. Will be great.

bamboozledon LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

I find it hard to take Geoffrey seriously too because he creates a technology and then runs around telling us we're all going to die from it.

It's the definition of stupidity. Create something, and then live in pure anxiety about the creation. It doesn't mean his wrong, but it seems like a really stupid thing to have done.