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Readit Newsducttapecrown commented on The Firefly and the Pulsar centauri-dreams.org/2025/... · Posted by u/JPLeRouzic
I'm not a mathematician but I think we underestimate how useful pure mathematics can be to tell whether we are approaching AGI.
Can the mathematicians here try ask it to invent new novel math related to [Insert your field of specialization] and see if it comes up with something new and useful?
Try lowering the temperature, use SymPy etc.
Terry Tao is writing about this on his blog.
ducttapecrown commented on Baby Shoggoth Is Listening theamericanscholar.org/ba... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
I have not heard or read anything about AI that could be construed as positive for an ordinary person. Step one is "lose your job with no possibility of finding another one, but still have to buy stuff to survive." That will also be the last step for a huge number of people. Is there a bull case for some hypothetical regular person with a desk job? I haven't seen one.
The bull case is that everyone losing their jobs will accelerate and bring about the socialist revolution, giving us universal basic income and universal healthcare.
ducttapecrown commented on Solarpunk is happening in Africa climatedrift.substack.com... · Posted by u/JoiDegn
Well, what is the alternative then? Probably the same problem when their diesel generator conks out. Small things you can do yourself, but rapidly you run into a situation where you need spare parts, or at least a competently run machine shop.
How long did it take for mobile repair shops to proliferate? Surely solar repair shops will also appear.
ducttapecrown commented on The shadows lurking in the equations gods.art/articles/equatio... · Posted by u/calebm
Dude, it's fine to be learning stuff and even writing about it. But if you're still discovering basic stuff like level sets, then maybe hold off on declaring that you've discovered, after centuries of mathematical development, a completely new form of graphing?
It reads more like mysticism than a serious claim of novelty, chill out.
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ducttapecrown commented on What is a manifold? quantamagazine.org/what-i... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
What's the relation between the different Lee manifolds? Is it a sequence you're supposed to read in order?
Lee taught Intro to Topological Manifolds for one quarter, and then the next two quarters where Intro to Smooth Manifolds. Then Riemannian, then vector bundles, and then complex manifolds.
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ducttapecrown commented on How the cochlea computes (2024) dissonances.blog/p/the-ea... · Posted by u/izhak
STFT?
Yesterday there was an article about how the ear works more like a Gabor transform or a wavelet transform than a Fourier transform, both of which are Short Time Fourier Transforms, so yes!
"During bubbles, every experiment or idea gets funded, the good ideas and the bad ideas. And investors have a hard time in the middle of this excitement, distinguishing between the good ideas and the bad ideas. ... But that doesn't mean anything that is happening isn't real."
Remind me again why we need investors to fund bad ideas? The whole premise of western capitalism is that investors can better align with the needs of the society and the current technological reality.
If the investors aren't the gurus we make them to be, we might as well do with a planning committee. We could actually end up with more diversified research.
"Under socialism, a lot of experimental ideas get funded, the good ideas and the bad ideas. And the planning committee have a hard time in the middle of this excitement, distinguishing between the good ideas and the bad ideas. ... But that doesn't mean anything that is happening isn't real."
We need investors to fund ideas to find out if they are good or bad. It is called testing.