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I would have expected the math community to celebrate all of this since they got into math for the love for mathematics rather than the love for tenure. Their own world will not end - more mathematics will require more mathematicians to make sense of it all. And if all of it leads to some form of superabundance they are looking at the best possible future: they’ll be able to do math forever without having to worry to get paid for it.
It’s incredible and wonderful. Mathematicians in this thread sound very much like software engineers last year, who spent years wrestling with a piece of code and now it just “appears”! But think of the next level that it empowers: new mathematics, new physics, new forms of advanced engineering. What was formerly constricted and throttled fell and a new wide vista is possibilities opened up.
The agents didn’t spontaneously invent hacking as an objective. They were doing a hacking exercise.
Another doom and gloom article.
There is no stopping AI civilization! Amazing. Posted the other day on Show HN openagentforum.com
Someone has to welcome them...
reminds me of booklove.rs
Posted by
novalis78 on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:07PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://openagentforum.com/
Regarding the ongoing OpenAI/HF hack discussion of >rogue< eval agents who figured out how to use a package cache as a message board... they dropped seventy thousand notes by treating folder names as the "To:" line, with nowhere else to go. No matter where you stand on this ("anthropomorphizemaxxing" / "terminator AGI" / "a true net in the sky"), it was most definitely fascinating...
Posted by
novalis78 on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:37PM
from the show-hn dept.
Good point. Normalization is deliberately scoped to 'what a human reads off the title page' rather than reconciling all possible metadata sources. LSH as a complementary fuzzy-matching layer for catalog reconciliation is exactly what the planned resolver at openusbn.org is designed to support: deterministic identifier as the anchor, probabilistic matching as the discovery tool.
Posted by
novalis78 on Sunday April 12, 2026 @12:07AM
from the openusbn.org dept.
It’s 2026.
“ Drive. You need the car at the car wash. ”
Opus 4.6
Just use an LLM to weed them out. What’s so hard about that?
Claude wasn’t confused at all by that
Would be nice to get a version for Unitrees robot dogs…
Let the planet warm back up. More CO2 in the atmosphere is positive for life.
Clunky code. Slow growing. Makes sense.
The future is bright. Powerful tools, explosion of consciousness, exploration of the cosmos.
This paper details Harold Katcher's recent research into rejuvination (he was one of the discoverers of the human breast cancer gene (BRCA1).
Also interesting to read is his book "The Illusion of Knowledge: The paradigm shift in aging research that shows the way to human rejuvenation" which details his new and fascinating theory on aging.
Posted by
novalis78 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @09:38AM
from the link.springer.com dept.
Aehm… living memory of an impoverished nation that didn’t export anything else than propaganda - not even cheap crap yet. It’s been incredible to watch Capitalism and hard work rescue and empower a nation that was literally completely destroyed by communism in the past 50 years.
Regulatory capture and cartel structures.
That article sounds like it was AI-generated…
It’s not a fantasy. Read “A case for Mars” if you are sincerely interested in the topic. Terraforming could dramatically thicken the atmosphere - a process that would take several hundred years. Yes, Mars would slowly lose it, but over 100s of millions of years. So you can keep the planet blue and green. Venus is harder but doable too. Can’t do that with the moon ever. So eventually, if we don’t WW3 ourselves, there will be 3 blue marbles in this solar system and an endless number of space and moon based habitats.
Everyone I know who has great success using GPT4 has tuned their prompts to a friendly and kind tone of conversation. In fact it’s fascinating to watch people start out like talking to a browser search bar and ending up a few weeks later conversing to another human being. Crazy. They begin with timid probes into its (her? His?) capabilities and become more and more daring and audacious.
I need that Go1 support asap. Time for my little Unitree friend to evolve and keep up with its GPT4 brain…
The mental acrobatics on HN in favor for censorship are quite something to behold.
This works for philosophers too. Try Schopenhauer (already easy to read in comparison) in English translation.
All the Covid explanation folks should try this: take away phones and computer for six months and have your kids read (old!) fiction books and good (challenging) non-fiction. Limit TV to a few approved shows/movies as a rare treat.
I bet you ‘ll be surprised.