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A Fields medal was awarded based mainly on this paper never published elsewhere: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211159

It's not a simplification, it's wrong. Sqrt(square(x)) equals abs(x).

Secrecy is anathema to governance accountable to the governed.

US law fails to recognize real world practice. It's bad engineering at its finest.

It would be a hell of a lot more functional to simply say directly what you want and mean.

This sort of management is dysfunctional even in it's premises.

Couldn't find blood oranges (sanguina in Spanish). Curious to know where they fit.

The USA cares for no law, follows no law, and respects no law.

Exactly. The solution already exists. However another problem is that the arxiv is creeping towards the old model ...

There is not good evidence that peer review improves quality and there is perhaps some to the contrary (many predatory journals are peer reviewed). The arxiv (unreviewed) is among the most reliable sources available.

In Spain the typical doorbell camera is illegal. In an apartment building it is illegal to have a camera on the door that points into "common" areas even though these are still private areas vis-a-vis the general public.

In Spain a private entity can't put a security camera that points into public spaces ...

"I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the intelligence community."

The moral incoherence and disconnect evident in these two statements is at the heart of why there is generalized mistrust of large tech companies.

The "values" on display are everything but what they pretend to be.

Only well written legislation backed by effective enforcement and severe and personal criminal penalties will prevent large corporate entities from behaving badly.

Pledges are a cynical marketing strategy aimed at fomenting a base politics that works to prevent such a regulatory regime.

It is amazing how much narrative archaeologists construct out of a single poorly preserved bone and radiocarbon dating that happens to conform nicely with a famous historical mystery. One should maintain a healthy skepticism about this sort of claim. There are surely alternative explanations for such "artefacts".

Those are qualitatively different issues. Newtonian gravity is very precise in a certain regime according to centuries of experiments. The issues with specific orngs are in many cases not even carefully analyzed.

If practical purposes include simulating physical processes then the problems with orngs become quite important.

Is this not what electrical engineers are for?

For most people the set "the smartest people I know as adults" inludes no elite performers in any area.

The abstract seems already highly tendentious. It acts like 90% nonoverlap (whatever that means precisely) between sets A and B is very small overlap, when at a population level it is huge overlap. If the set of yough high performers and the set of adult high performers have 10% overlap, it means that youth high performance is a tremendously good indicator for adult high performance.

The problem is not just empathy. It is also ethics. The fine distinction between opting out of A and opting out of B described in the post served to justify ignoring the opt out request. That's lazy ethically. The entire US business sector's customer relations are completely compromised ethically. It's taken to extremes in tech contexts.