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Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:16AM (#50351607)
That's a bizarre viewpoint. "The universe" doesn't care if we live or die, yet we still accept human life as having value.
Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:12AM (#50351569)
Not yet
Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:01AM (#50351492)
Reactionary is an english word.
I agree they're incomparable, but you compared them nonetheless.
I mean that's just a lie. Kolmogorov didn't achieve international recognition through party connections, he received it because of his genius and accomplishments.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:49AM (#50339646)
Well yes, that's what a dissertation is. My PI didn't help my at all.
The Soviet Union hasn't even existed for 35 of the last 50 years.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:05PM (#50332211)
That's not even remotely how human research works.
Re:We Took over ChatGPT Accounts on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:13PM (#50317459)
Which game theory model specifically applies here?
Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:47PM (#50253735)
Trmendous, huge, bigly
Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:44PM (#50253715)
I mean yes, phone manufacturers have the same problem.
Re:Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:50PM (#50247944)
It doesn't really matter if I do, it matters if the economists who study it do. It's not controversial to say that "shock therapy" was a disaster, and that living standards have plummeted since the collapse of communism in many countries.
Re:Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:40PM (#50247764)
Well fortunately you don't get to tell people what they should romanticize. I know it's hard for an upper-middle class white computer programmer to understand, but some people actually prefer farming to sweatshops.
I wish Obama was president in 2020.
Re:Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:53AM (#50245888)
There are post Soviet countries that still haven't returned to their 1991 GDP.
Re:Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:51AM (#50245835)
Autonomy is a funny word to use, considering many of these places aren't democracies.
Re:Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:49AM (#50245789)
The irony of saying this while denigrating farm work, the oldest human profession, is mind boggling.
That's how it always goes. We're told that animal research is vitally important and needs grant money. But then when a study is actually published, we're told "that's just an animal study, you can't draw any conclusions from it".
How you you feel sad about it if you don't care? It sounds like you're not being so honest.
This administration is a boon for the sadistic Josef Mengele types.
Re:Claude Duet on Friday October 23, 2026 @09:32PM (#50217575)
You're asking for a study proving that AI didn't exist in 1776?
Happens like every week. Maybe you just don't read news outside HN.
Where's that post-Brexit windfall of cash for the NHS? It's still coming, right?
Re:Claude Duet on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:56PM (#50200917)
I'm quite certain that the Declaration of Independence wasn't written by AI.
Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:39PM (#50197771)
Finland isn't an authoritarian shithole like the US yet. They still have a free press, and there's nothing you can do about it.
That's empirically false. Breakthrough technologies are novel by definition, their discovery is very improbable conditional on prior thinking.
Re:Claude Duet on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:03AM (#50195476)
Your "vibes" are not verification
Tools don't "understand" anything. They put together a probable string of tokens.
Re:Claude Duet on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:18PM (#50190358)
What do you mean "agree with"? I don't give a shit if his AI girlfriend buys a house in Japan lol.

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