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plesiv

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plesiv··on Tesla Roadster
It could have military applications; it's hard to imagine any civilian applications.
plesiv··on AI was great until it was not
Beautiful writing style. So light, still eloquent.
plesiv··on What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI
The existence of an undiscovered soundness bug doesn't make everything proven in Lean illicit. The proof would have to exploit the bug. People build houses on sound foundations even though the tectonic situation under them might not be sound.

> Because of these properties, the final backstop has to be humans...

The post has clearly stated that the work on Lean's underlying metatheory is not done, and requires more work. It's not inconceivable that computer formal verification could reach the trustworthiness of math itself.

plesiv··on Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances
Your probability distribution should be flatter at least.
plesiv··on I am often wrong
Ridiculous CC bug I encountered, that others have encountered as well: I asked Fable to review a commit. Suddenly my Fable quota for the week was at 100%, while a moment ago it was at 55%. A few days pass (1 day before the weekly reset) the quota resets back to 55%. ?!?!?!?!
plesiv··on Tell HN: Claude Code Is Down
https://status.claude.com/ indicates "All Systems Operational"