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This was clearly written by someone with too little exposure to history and (comparably) too much to academic economics. No one else could think Coase belongs on such a list and fo…

How could any European govt use MS after Trump ordered MS to sanction an ICC prosecutor and MS complied? I imagine they're all trying to walk away

I don't think that's a great example. If Kahneman claimed not to be susceptible, it would have greatly undermined his claims about the universality of these phenomena: many other p…

I settle this question for myself every month: I try asking ChatGPT and Gemini for help, but in my domains it fails miserably at anything that looks new. But, YMMV, that's just the…

I think you're misunderstanding the point this paper is trying to make. They're interested in trying to distinguish whether AI is capable of solving new math problems or only capab…

You're wrong. The mistake could have been unfixable. That happens quite frequently (see: countless retracted claimed proofs of major results by professional mathematicians).

The thought police already arrived, see Columbia grant cancellations and Mahmoud Khalil [1]. [1] "Khalil is a “threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the U…

I also can't tell whether Stanford is joking, but the notion that he's a good fit for the job of biology professor is definitely funny!

It's nice to live in a world where actions have consequences. When the media coverage got too much, Marc Tessier-Lavigne finally had to resign as president of Stanford, so he could…

Interestingly, the asymptotically fastest known algorithm for minimum weight bipartite matching [A] uses an interior point method, which means it's also doing Riemannian optimizati…

It's right there, in the press release: >>> Jonathan Friedman, Sy Syms director of PEN America’s U.S. Free Expression programs, said: “The irony cannot be lost here: government off…

Ah yes, Minority Report, that story we're so eager to repeat.

But, the starting point of Neural Networks in the ML/AI sense, is cybernetics + Rosenblatt's perceptron, research done mathematicians (who became early computer scientists)

Absolutely. This makes very little sense, IMO, and is a bad look for the committee, trying to claim 'physics' for something that clearly is not.

These problems are literally already solved? Of course, the IMO problem designers make sure the problems have solutions before the use them. That's very different than math researc…

Interestingly, the same guy also works on making 'theory-only' algorithms work well in practice [1]. But, it seems like that takes another 20 years -- [1] is building on a theory b…

I'm not arguing that X/Twitter is doing something that prevents it from being protected by section 230 as it exists. But, when Congress granted these protections, I think they had …

When Ken Klippenstein obtained footage of an FSD Tesla causing a major accident [1] and wrote about it, he got blocked from being found through X/Twitter search [2]. I remember ver…

When was mainstream media not advertising driven? When was media not beholden to corporate interests?

Also, just to add, 'quantumalgorithmszoo.org' is quite out of date: For example, they claim a polynomial speed-up for network flow, but that's based on the SOTA in 2007. These days…

You should be very skeptical of all those applications except Shor. HHL: Here's a quote from Ewin Tang [1]: "We know that quantum computers can “efficiently solve” high-dimensional…

There are lots of problems for which algorithms (with no data/learning required) are trivially superhuman, in the sense that they perform tasks no human could hope to do. AlphaFold…

I didn't read your comment as a defense, only as an explanation. And as an explanation, you're right: The pressure is getting to way too many people. But how can you fix it? I'm af…