turzmo

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by turzmo 3d ago
I assume that will be a feature available for the higher tier subscriptions...
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by turzmo 4d ago
“Any future plateaus in capability are planned, for your safety”
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by turzmo 11d ago
Sure, why not, it’s just not selling the idea that money buys happiness…
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by turzmo 11d ago
Personal training services? Workout gear? Not sure you should have lead with that, these are expensive things with minimal impact.
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by turzmo 11d ago
I don't know, self-reported happiness seems like an awfully unreliable metric. For one, I've noticed that projecting unhappiness is much more of a faux pas in rich circles. On its own this could account for much of this relationsh
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by turzmo 1mo ago
That may be, but my point stands. It is neither learning to absorb difficult material nor efficient.
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by turzmo 1mo ago
I don't think so. There are many objections to methods of making learning "easier" and the invalidity of one does not imply the invalidity of all of them. We've also seen the effects of LLMs on learning, at least when us
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by turzmo 1mo ago
Baby Rudin is a special textbook: it comes from a time when mathematics textbooks were not at all judged by their pedagogical value, but instead by their aesthetic appeal to mathematicians (a la Bourbaki). If you actually want to learn anal
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by turzmo 2mo ago
There are two number "1" pigs, and two of them have malformed tails. Sloppy even for slop!
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by turzmo 2mo ago
Doctors simply don’t treat things well that are not classified as a particular disease. If you want to get stronger or more fit, you may well be better off asking your local bro than your PCP. Sleep is sadly in the same category. If you don
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by turzmo 2mo ago
Same here. Only thing that’s ever worked.
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by turzmo 2mo ago
I’ve had a similar experience in physics. Excellent domain knowledge and semantic search, but the intellectual sparkle and reasoning just isn’t there and it still often throws out a lot of wrong ideas. It is very useful for coding. But ther
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by turzmo 2mo ago
Both impressive and terrifying. But as always, the methodology is buried: how many open problems were tried until they found a success? If they tried this on 1000 problems and this is the one that succeeded, it still means that there are 99
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by turzmo 3mo ago
I don’t think that’s always true. Backlash is a real thing. It doesn’t always work, but it doesn’t cost much and it’s a lot better than blindly accepting the situation.
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by turzmo 3mo ago
I never understood this perspective. Just because a person's behavior is market-rational, it does not mean they can't be criticized for externalities. That is, in fact, an important thing to do. It turns those externalities into p
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by turzmo 3mo ago
(2023)
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by turzmo 3mo ago
> The valuation is the potential based on what SpaceX could do as the 1st mover in space tech. It is not.
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by turzmo 3mo ago
Would either of you have a recommendation on where to start learning about either?
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Sounds Like Bach(ibiblio.org)
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by turzmo 3mo ago
The author seems too humble to put a giant Patreon link in a popup (it's at the very bottom), but in case anyone wants to know how to support: https://www.patreon.com/ciechanowski/membership?vanity=ciech...
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by turzmo 3mo ago
Clippy would have been perfect for the role!
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by turzmo 4mo ago
I don't think Erdos problems are useless myself, I put "useless" in quotes to emphasize that they are the sort of research that doesn't have an immediate application, and so their automated resolution should be weighed a
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by turzmo 4mo ago
Much of math (or science) research has the strange quality of being mostly curiosity-driven, but having giant benefits that occasionally spin out to the public. Some questions are more urgent and practical. My feeling is that the more direc
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by turzmo 4mo ago
Thanks for elaborating. Can you say more about mysticism?
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by turzmo 4mo ago
I’ve heard this said, but why?
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by turzmo 4mo ago
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by turzmo 4mo ago
Not OP, but it has to be a walk with no headphones for me. As I walk, thoughts seem to bubble up from my subconscious and present themselves for consideration. This doesn’t happen as often if I’m listening to music.
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by turzmo 4mo ago
Won’t be canned for going with the herd. I think it’s that simple, even if the herd is running off a cliff.
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by turzmo 4mo ago
Yes, as some of these are being solved by the same person, I think my point is even more relevant: you try 1000 problems and solve a few, and only report the few, and it just seems like a matter of time until the rest are solved. But if you
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by turzmo 4mo ago
This is true, but I still think the relevant question is, how many did they try before they found one that yielded to LLMs? The conclusion is very different if they tried 100 open problems and succeeded at one.

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