pickleRick243

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by pickleRick243 5d ago
actually I think the whole point is we're finding that the chess analogy to math is in fact quite apt. Math is just an extremely complex game. Its rules can be written down and there are win conditions. It's really not far fetc
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by pickleRick243 5d ago
lol right. The nonchalance in referring to taxi/bus driver jobs. Remember when we all said it's a good thing when the coal mining jobs are going away and that they should all just learn to code? Maybe a little more of that energ
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by pickleRick243 5d ago
for many fairly strong mathematicians, the career calculus is fame and status (mild though it may be) through mathematics or anonymity but financial reward in tech or finance. Yes, clout by becoming a lifelong academic is in fact rational
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by pickleRick243 5d ago
what about cancer?
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by pickleRick243 5d ago
sounds a bit like cope. Crouzeix's conjecture was solved exactly under these circumstances and I wouldn't describe it as "not that valuable". In any case, AI capabilities will increase dramatically over the next few ye
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by pickleRick243 6d ago
your questioning made it sound abnormal. If this conversation were about Kobe Bryant and someone used "Kobe" to refer to him, would you have made your comment? Pretty clearly your criticism of parasociality doesn't have muc
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by pickleRick243 6d ago
what? So everyone on earth is parasocial for calling Kobe Bryant Kobe?
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by pickleRick243 7d ago
I thought as much- my point is that as AI capabilities continue to expand, AI skeptics inadvertently and ironically end up belittling the humans they presumably hold in high esteem vs. the "cold machines" that aren't capable
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by pickleRick243 7d ago
I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but this is more an insult directed at mathematics, not openAI.
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by pickleRick243 7d ago
I think the point is that one of the biggest problems in the field has been solved and yet the excitement from this is nearly nil. Can you imagine if say breast cancer were cured under similar circumstances, or even worse (say OpenAI openl
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by pickleRick243 8d ago
Honestly, the attitude of the math community is a bit cringe and increasingly I think some of the elite/mystical aura is fading. Rather than a rich fertile jungle where AI can barely chomp through a fraction of the luscious terrain, o
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by pickleRick243 26d ago
This article is so mid. The author clearly feels how mid he is and is desperate to justify that mid people are also smart, maybe even smarter in that superior nebulous way on ambiguous, ill-defined problems than those squares that can only
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by pickleRick243 1mo ago
So because you personally needed extra time to mature, you want to force a nationwide measure to force everyone to do the same? No one is stopping anyone from taking a year off before applying to college.
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by pickleRick243 1mo ago
It's because it's risky and also requires actually being exceptional at something. So people choose the arduous brute force method because they know they can do it and it has a lower bound in terms of outcome. In any case, this i
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by pickleRick243 1mo ago
I notice your two comments straddle the contradiction "It's definitely not happening, but also it's terrible that it is."
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by pickleRick243 1mo ago
Yeah, even without the resets, chatgpt subscription currently goes quite a bit further than an equivalent anthropic plan. The main reason to have an anthropic plan is to get access to Fable 5 if you feel the quality of output makes it wort
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by pickleRick243 1mo ago
Society is made up of families, i.e. children and parents. So yes of course it's up to society to solve these problems, tautologically. But that's not what you meant. Everywhere you wrote "society", you really meant &
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by pickleRick243 1mo ago
"A detected mark provides a signal that content was processed by Claude, but is not fully conclusive." "Lack of a detected mark doesn’t mean the content wasn’t AI-generated or processed."
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by pickleRick243 1mo ago
It's 90% to advance science via cheap labor and 10% to train a small group of future experts who will hire grad students to 90% advance science via cheap labor etc. ...
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by pickleRick243 1mo ago
Which part of it is highly technical or jargon loaded?
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by pickleRick243 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms
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by pickleRick243 2mo ago
"I am not confused. Because herein these forums, I predicted everything that was going to happen years ago." I mean, lol.
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by pickleRick243 3mo ago
It was also about 10x longer than it had to be because an LLM was heavily involved in its writing.
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by pickleRick243 3mo ago
Either HN has become much more accepting of LLM-generated content or it can't tell the difference. Still, it was a decent skim. These models are fairly smart; I wouldn't say they are complete wastes of time. I find LLM articles
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by pickleRick243 3mo ago
I actually find it funny the downvoters can't tell this was definitely LLM-assisted writing. I'll admit it's more subtle than usual and the writer put some real work in (it wasn't just a one-shot prompt to "write te
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by pickleRick243 3mo ago
Journalists used to decry the use of LLMs. Now they use it freely to write their own articles.
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by pickleRick243 3mo ago
It's not different- there's a line of research and reasoning where people who don't use LLM's regularly point out issues that have been known (and more or less solved) for more than a year now (which is an eternity in th
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by pickleRick243 3mo ago
It's like people who expect ChatGPT to be really good at chess because chess engines with super-human performance have been around for decades, so obviously the latest frontier LLM that took billions to train should find the task trivi
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by pickleRick243 3mo ago
Ah yeah, it probably is. I noticed I guess the more subtle LLMisms earlier on. I stopped reading fairly early on when I noticed I was wasting my time reading a long AI slop article. I do admittedly read a fair amount of "AI slop&quo
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by pickleRick243 3mo ago
Yep, clearly LLM assisted writing. It was likely prompted in stages, not one shot with a single prompt. I'm surprised you are basically the only one to notice. It seems most people need to literally see "not X, but Y" or &

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