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"every novel result is broadly perceived as a big deal" is not at all true. AI companies hype any novel result as proof that AI is good for mathematics, but professional mathematic…

Most fields, in the aggregate, produce a lot of pointless work, but if you judge mathematics by its best examples, as judged by the field itself, and also by the outside intellectu…

There's actually a lot of math trying to describe the types of space you mention - non quantized, non 'granular', they're not made of points, or distances (metrics). One deep idea …

Spot on! Love Diaspora. This is honestly such a gem of a comment. To some extent, if the AI ever gets "so far ahead" of humans, the most productive aspect will be the frontier visi…

Your example of the Italian school is well taken, although most of their results were later proven to be correct in the right setting. Severi's example is particularly egregious an…

Some of the Istanbul earthquakes felt like that for me.

This part: Let's now adjust for inflation so you can see the budget squeeze. $19.2 billion in 2016 dollars is worth $26.4 billion and change, once adjusted for inflation, in March …

I agree with you - I was saying that members of the military & their families have treaty-defined standards of being in the country & thus required to behave a certain way, whereas…

Different rules apply to members of the military stationed on a treaty-based foreign military base. However, as a thought experiment, let's go with your flawed analogy: Even then, …

One of the attractions of a country for scientists and scholars, and visitors generally, is an atmosphere of freedom. The right to protest is a constitutionally protected right. He…

"The area is so remote that, since no regular marine or air traffic routes are within 400 kilometres (250 mi), sometimes the closest human beings are astronauts aboard the Internat…

You realize that is far too recent to show up in cancer death rates for under-40 year olds right? It takes 10-15 years for a change-in-behavior to show up in incidence and even lon…

How much of the rise do the listed later on (endurance athletes, obesity, sugary drinks, sedentary lifestyle) explain the relative youth rise? After all, some of this was an issue …

I don't doubt translators face massive job losses. I hate this "personal interest" style anecdotal news stories though, because it gives me no actual sense/data on how fast/slow th…

A lot of viruses insert themselves into your DNA, they may mess up the 3D structure, or during DNA repair result in misrepair / duplications, or simply insert somewhere and break s…

I've really seen both I suppose. A lot of devs don't take accountability / responsibility for their code, especially if they haven't done anything that actually got shipped and use…

Look up Jevons Paradox, when something becomes more efficient, consumption can goes up, often due to price elasticity. Think of like this: Imagine car prices go from $200,000 to $$…

Only about 1.5% of the human genome is protein coding. The human genome is about 3 billion base pairs long.

I agree with all of what you're saying. I think the biggest lever is completely overhauling healthcare. The USA is very inefficient, and for subpar outcomes. In practice, the feder…

Global datacenter spending across all categories (ML + everything else) is roughly 0.9 - 1.2 trillion dollars for the last three years combined, I was initially going to go for "qu…

I agree with you 100%! Any additional surplus will be extracted as rents, when housing is restricted. I am for passing laws that make it much easier for people to obtain permits to…

Anthropologists measure how civilized a tribe or society was by looking if they took care of the elderly, and what the child survival rates were. USA leads to developed world in ch…

[ This comment I'm making is USA centric. ]. I agree with the idea of making our society better and more equitable - reducing homelessness, hunger, poverty, especially for our chil…

Do you know of some tools with a parameter that asks it to be "weird" and increase diversity of outputs?

I am arguing against Searle's Chinese Room argument, I am not positing that LLMs are minds. I am specifically refuting that your brain and the Chinese room can be both subject to t…