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Should I also be interested in 45% of that remaining 1% who know what they are talking about and yet are (mostly) "turn brain off and let tokens rip"

Eg:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046857

Or the 5% that are in awe but not quite turning their own brains on?

Like, recently, I "learnt" to be jealous/suspicious of people on youtube who marvel at the engineering of spiral escalators ..

Alright. I jumped to conclusions skimming that kintg.cc (before a risch call would even be considered)

Parts of it looked very much like pmint's core tactic of matching coefficients (given a form)

Flow CE is unlikely to have the full risch.. one could compromise with, "pmint with risch characteristics"

And a battery powered laser

https://youtu.be/P5VEu77qe4Q

It's most likely based on the Poor Man's Integrator (amongst other tricks)

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/67727/the-easiest-symboli...

Treasure trove for people into this sort of thing https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Dr-Kragler

I think the role of specific _human_ mathematicians at OpenAI should not be understated.

TFA was about a niche topic that OpenAI doesn't have in-house expertise in.

Otoh Aaronson is the co-author on Lijie Chen's (reasoning lead at OAI) top cited paper. OAI have deployed their resources more effectively against UGC that some of their staff are already familiar with

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T_OhvOsAAAAJ

https://finance.biggo.com/news/B0eMxZsBy4YEFZDUVPWh

No. Someone received a tip, presumably from inside OAI. He then used OAI Astra to check..

Tweeter checked it with Astra. It seems like OAI could have pointed their own instance at it before launch. Because the source of the tip is likely someone at OAI, my guess is that they actually did check. But after the launch.

The bigger question is why there was internal pressure to rush such a historic launch without having someone in the company, anyone, check the proofs first.

This concerns the Hodge conjecture (millennium prize related) paper. Seems to me like PhD nerds weren't confident bosses pushed ahead anyway.

Stupid, but could be fun: grants are given for how amusing your proposed prompts are.

Everyone should have a portfolio of prompts that are indecipherable by other humans but when fed to a frontier model, produces shocking one paragraph english version of a 10000 line lean proof

Obfuscated prompt grant contest

This, but for a generalised notion of "number" (that is, "proof")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing-up-my-sleeve_number

?

Hmmmm. It feels right that discovery is much more meaningful than achievement. "Bullshit lean proof" or "bullshit achievement" smells like it. "bullshit discovery" smells like a front-handed insult

>I believe that the optimal thing to do ... is to let the machines loose, see what happens, and then begin the journey to where they have stopped. Things are currently moving fast. They cannot move fast forever. But if we get on board now then they will take us to extraordinary new places. And after we have arrived, the new adventure will begin.

I'm relieved that this time around, they have provided partial reasoning traces and prompts for a small number of problems. Do they now also share data with the other model providers..

Brace for impact.. OpenAI are going to dump their load

Looks like they are betting the downer from AGMAI is not going to hurt their cred where it matters (investors and whales (strange mix of b-tier profs, postdocs, uni admins, and crackpots))

My own is there won't be prompts, traces, whatever. Same old style. Navier-Stokes "worked". People outside unglamorous analysis swallowed it.

One hope is that everyone will know someone whose years of work went for nought. By hearsay, the pipeline of whales will be broken (only hitting openAI revenues in a couple of years postIPO, however)

Your move, Anthropic

Uh not sure Halzen personally made discoveries, in the original sense of the word!

Indeed, "in-spiraling" seems more like a one-man discovery (or has more of a chance to become one) than many (not all, obv) nobel prize winning work

The mechanism for which Higgs was awarded was also independently discovered by at least ten other people (I can't count)

>The Higgs mechanism is therefore also called the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism, or Englert–Brout–Higgs–Guralnik–Hagen–Kibble mechanism,[9] Anderson–Higgs mechanism,[10] Anderson–Higgs–Kibble mechanism,[11] Higgs–Kibble mechanism by Abdus Salam[12] and ABEGHHK'tH mechanism (for Anderson, Brout, Englert, Guralnik, Hagen, Higgs, Kibble, and 't Hooft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism

Can't wait for OpenAI to get the nobel prize; Swedes are more sympathetic than mathematicians!! (so that human beings might completely separate discovery from reward/awards/recognition. Discovery is a human right!!!)

OP calls that "betting against the airplane".

Let's fight that, not by rejecting tech, but by making OP sound silly. Without citing personal experience. Using vague arguments. Repeating oneself. (Sorry dang!!)

Modern jets turned commercial pilots into bullshit jobbers! But drones turned jet fightin' into a bullshit job! (And you can argue some Ukrainians should Santos-Dumont it in a biplane, turning subsonic drone piloting into a bullshit job

https://youtu.be/gBxQixJfOzk )

In aviation, it's the parasailers and the wingsuiters who find most meaning in what they do. That's because planes can't really do what they do. Planes can never do what we really want to do... Which is... Fly like a bird.

LLMs will probably never help us navigate the universe like a god. That's what math promised us!!

(I'm still hoping that some future (bio)Tech will help us fly like a bird, etc, ... That does sound much more likely than Language Light and Magic (LLM))

You sound like a mathematician. I'm with you but OP calls that "betting against the airplane".

Let's fight that by making OP sound silly. Without citing personal experience. Using vague arguments (Sorry dang!!)

Modern jets turned commercial pilots into bullshit jobbers! But drones turned jet fightin' into a bullshit job! (And you can argue some Ukrainians should do it in a biplane--- turn subsonic drone piloting into a bullshit job!

https://youtu.be/gBxQixJfOzk )

In aviation, it's the parasailers and the wingsuiters who find most meaning in what they do. That's because planes can't really do what they do. Planes can never do what we really want to do... Which is... Fly like a bird.

LLMs will probably never help us navigate the universe like a god.

(I'm still hoping that some future biotech will help us fly like a bird, etc, ... That does sound much more likely than Language Light and Magic (LLM))

OT but I really would have liked to see your comments on this

  (deleted submission)

  https://inti-tidball.writeas.com/por-que-uso-y-recomiendo-dominios-xyz-numericos-para-self-hosting

Judging by performance in true team sports (except women's v-ball) one might argue US is slightly ahead in the collectivism, culturally speaking..

Is chips a true team sport? I would guess, no.

Yes. To me, your point underscores that (my fave insufferable "dual pair" of treasure) Taleb is more like an orthodox economist than he'd like to admit, and PG is more like a (fin)techbro than he'd care to admit. The pride differential in the info differential, I think?

(What role does gender/species play here, ha, I haven't thought much about _that_)

Ah.. starts to make a bit of sense.

It could be like when I step into an unfamiliar cafe, I can sort of tell straightaway it's a Korean and not Japanese just by the "nonsymbolic" interior design.

Would you say it's the opposite of wabi-sabi? That's supposed to "taste natural" I think. But raw.

Seems like two opposite "cultural","statistical" decisions starting from the same commercial question

Almost certainly agree. the gap is filled by my peculiar paranoia

(Better compare Altman with Thiel, yes, low-key maturity, children, more relationships under the belt(?), detachment from operations.. but also more worrying than Musk because of the access to influence/sophisticated "team-play". I wonder at the chatrooms/mailing lists that now have Thiel+Altman+Zuck+Karp but not Musk)

Deradicalisation gradient here is positive, don't you think?

https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1vhe955/everything...

These postpandemic moves seem less extreme than before (one commenter went so far as to say zero)

Sam Altman's upcoming midlife crises are more worrying. This other man has been surfing his.

The space laser thing was (unsurprisingly in different ways to different people) just a minor readjustment..

Maybe the fact is that inward spiralling sounds like an auto(dep/reg)ressive ideology (same as outward spiralling) to outsiders

You know the Yeats poem?

Maybe my own ideology, when projected, looks like this

https://nilesjohnson.net/hopf.html

(Imagine that all these threads are connected before the projection, maybe by "connecting the "point" of "each linkage" thus "foliating" 4D space" -- "to infinity and back"!)

I'm watching out for right (anti-other, ancaps) and left (anti-status quo, ansocs) getting together to fight the centrists.

Eg Bannon+Sanders against AI, but led by much younger people including women/LGBTQXXX.. strangely, this might happen in Japan/US/LA first not EU/EA because urban youth are more polarized in the earlier set?? The ancap against AI angle is particularly interesting-- YC already has some of it.. so what it might take would be the anti-other to first reach entente with the LGBTQ/left-identitarians/feminists/antiZionists, that is, recognizing "institutional-AI" as a bigger threat than "patriarchy"

Btw.. HN feels to me like Thiel-like (in methods, not stance) propagandists for the Convivial-Institution weaponizing their growing hoard of humane but "incidentally" individualist stories. (Because fun details about bureaucracy are structurally rare in comparison)

Friendly, knowledgeable oldbeards (men) finding their energetic curious young "broccoli haired" successors, to make this sound more... Immunogenic ;)

"Insiders" (ahem why does OP think this is interesting ) chip in on the following and others? They could also be standard, but I an likely much more wrong about how interesting they are?

1) frequency upconverted light with BBO generates photocurrents (But it doesn't seem like the measurement itself is "quantum-enhanced"? As I understand it the process generates entangled photon pairs?)

2)etching gold with very mild chemicals (KI would be a health supplement after your nuclear apocalypse. YBCO in your cup of phosphoric acid doesn't seem so bad either)

3) https://www.colorado.edu/conference/bss/media/4149

Bro maybe keep the violence down. HN is bearable because I can cleanse my palette at the end of every session with humor from the few commenters like you.

I don't want to see my fave HNers all get banned for rare but deadly infractions (although I can see something like the above comment written by myself)

Btw I might have made a mistake of searching for "breckyunits".

Now I remember benreesman.. but maybe the last flagged comment is beyond my search-fu?

(I remember these two oldtimers because I sympathize with their "far-left" anticorpo yet agentic vibes)