stbede

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by stbede 4d ago
That far from charitable. My arguement is: A) According to the letter, mathematicians most value: - mathematicians developing their mastery - developing mathematics that provides insights and can be eventually synthesized down conceptually
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by stbede 4d ago
I don't understand why you can't just articulate the point yourself. It took me a while to guess what you were getting at. Could it be the quote: Our egos are powerful things. They want to believe that we’re each better than we a
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by stbede 4d ago
I might want to. Would you explain its relevance here and make a pitch for me doing so.
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by stbede 4d ago
Here's the thing. I read the letter. I'm considering it on its merits. And it has very little. They made great arguments for why it's a good thing that the mathematical community operates the way they do. They could have made
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by stbede 4d ago
Shouldn't the AI companies know by now that all mathematical knowledge belongs to the mathematical community? Hopefully this letter knocks some sense into them.
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by stbede 4d ago
I think the letter is misguided. So what if the AI labs are misaligned to math? - But they announced a result before a paper was peer reviewed! The horror! So what? The mathematics community can read the paper once it is written up. - But t
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by stbede 4d ago
That's a completely different matter. And does it matter to my point if they were successful or not? That's ex-post analysis. It seems clear that ex-ante, they wanted this to be a marketing win. The original poster complained that
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by stbede 4d ago
The opposite of malicious is not honest. Nor do I see how motivations fall on a binary. The user submitting an AI proof can be honest, or malicious, or careless, or overzealous, or incompetent, or a whole bunch of other things. As far as th
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by stbede 4d ago
What I'm not seeing reported on much is if the result reveals any new techniques or ideas that advance mathematics - which is what we usually hear is the reason to work on these problems. Or does the resolution of NS just add a fact to
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by stbede 4d ago
Boo hoo. OpenAI got the result only days ago. It makes perfect sense for them to take the win in marketing, and it's fine if they take a few months putting together the paper and present it more productively later. The scientific commu
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by stbede 23d ago
In the hypothetical, when he becomes famous, someone making prints for $20 is $1,980 less than what he would be getting now so the damage is $1,980 per print. Both the purchasers of the print and the photographer are part of society. Under
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by stbede 24d ago
I won financially. Encyclopedia sets were expensive.
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by stbede 1mo ago
Try "I am not old enough to have seen"
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by stbede 2mo ago
Am I wrong to think that because equal and opposite forces are always present, names have to be given to phenomena that are not present in the formal math itself?
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by stbede 2mo ago
I agree with the example of human agents because we can acknowledge concepts like will, choice, agency, etc. But none of those ideas are present in Newton's laws of motions.
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by stbede 2mo ago
And at the speed at which the solar system is orbiting the galaxy, I don't know that it would even look much like like the planets are orbiting the sun.
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by stbede 2mo ago
How do you feel about Aristotelian realism? Makes more sense to me than nominalism/conceptualism ever has.
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by stbede 2mo ago
> The difference with the Copernican stuff is that you can fly a satellite (e.g. Voyager) to the edge of the solar system, look back, and see the planets orbiting the sun. Or you can put the satellite in the back of a truck and back the
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by stbede 2mo ago
$10 isn't $10 everywhere. There are still places in the country where $10 feels expensive. You may want to add a filter for even cheaper meals. On the other end, increasingly, even fast food combos are more than $10. It would be helpfu
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by stbede 3mo ago
Being paid in stock is a form of income, which is taxed when given and which is separate from the additional capital gains tax levied when the stock is sold. Regardless, even if different forms of compensation are taxed different, the point
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by stbede 4mo ago
I probably have a better house in Utah than many Silicon Valley CEOs have in the Bay Area, but they have better weather.
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by stbede 4mo ago
A two millennia old institution rarely operates on the scale of decades. The workers’ rights movement may have become a pressing political issue then, but workers have been around for thousands of years. Most genuinely new ideas are actuall
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by stbede 5mo ago
Yes, but the thing causing the pain may still be there
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by stbede 7mo ago
So she died of cancer
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by stbede 7mo ago
The current pope is a little more traditional, but it’s hard not to be more traditional than Francis. However, the cardinals as a whole are more or less on board with the previous pope’s agenda, American bishops a little less so, and many A
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by stbede 7mo ago
European Protestantism and American Protestantism differ in substantial ways. Crudely, European Protestantism went the way of Hegelian dialectics and evolving beyond the Christianity of the Bible. American (conservative) Protestantism large
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by stbede 7mo ago
> The church as an institution certainly prefers the more radical conservatives as you go higher up the chain I think right now it’s the exact opposite.
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by stbede 7mo ago
American religions are more like American Indian tribal nations. They have independent jurisdiction and their income is not subject to taxation. Whether or not they engage in politics is completely their prerogative and has no bearing on th
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by stbede 7mo ago
The original law (like many laws that delegated congressional authorities at the time) contained a legislative veto provision which gave the legislative final oversight of any administrative action. In the 80’s the Supreme Court found that
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by stbede 7mo ago
But that kind of recklessness is malice

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