Math is the study of futility.
Futility to calculate, to understand, to define, to rationalize.
1 is the only number. Everything else is a name.
Readit NewsRyanAdamas commented on The number line freaks me out (2016) mathwithbaddrawings.com/2... · Posted by u/mananaysiempre
RyanAdamas commented on Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools danieldelaney.net/chat/... · Posted by u/cryptophreak
The chat interface modality is a fleeting one in the grand scheme. Billion token context windows with recursive Ai production based on development documentation and graphics is likely the next iteration.
Spotify too (allegedly) had bunch of pirated content to bootstrap the service. I guess the difference is that they (and YouTube) tried to pivot away from it, compared to Megaupload which seemed to have leaned into it instead.
Sure you're not thinking of Grooveshark which was the original Spotify?
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RyanAdamas commented on AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data nature.com/articles/s4158... · Posted by u/rntn
Back when I was getting my econ degree, we were taught about the Ultimatum game, which goes like this: You get two participants who don't know each other and will (ostensibly) never see each other again. You give one of them $100, and they make an offer of some portion of it to the other. If the other accepts, both parties keep their portion - so, if A offers B $20, and B accepts, A keeps $80 and B keeps $20, if B rejects, both parties get nothing. Standard economic theory suggests A can offer $1 and B will accept, because otherwise B gets nothing. Spoiler for those of you who haven't seen how standard economic theory plays out in real life, that's not how the game went - typically, offers below ~$30 or so got rejected, because B was a real feeling person who felt like they were getting screwed and opted to punish A for doing so. The exception to this - the people who would take the $1 offer - were people who had been taught economic theory. It turns out you _could_ screw them over and they'd pat themselves on the backs for being very wise.
The "tragedy of the commons" is another one of those parts of standard economic theory that never actually played out in reality - we've got examples from all over the world of communities implementing practices and often entire belief systems that led them to be responsible stewards of shared resources without requiring unilateral ownership of that resource and singular acquisition of the benefits of that stewardship, and yet first on the lips of every modern capitalist when describing why they're at a disadvantage if they're not the ones polluting the water supply is the tragedy of the commons.
This reminds me of Lord of the Flies. The real version of the events turned out very differently.
https://www.newsweek.com/real-lord-flies-true-story-boys-isl...
Personally, language diversity should be the last thing on the list. If we had optimized every software from the get-go for a dozen languages our forward progress would have been dead in the water.
So in a sense math is exploration of the relation between existence and nonexistence.