> One comparison revealed detailed structural parallels between biological materials and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, highlighting shared patterns of complexity through isomorphic mapping.
This is not serious.
Readit Newsgran_colombia commented on Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation news.mit.edu/2024/graph-b... · Posted by u/laurex
gran_colombia commented on The Last Avant-Garde lareviewofbooks.org/artic... · Posted by u/apollinaire
This is impossibly pedantic.
Lots of claims that artists are confined to their media. This assertion is false. Artists mix in new technology, innovate all the time.
A lot of emphasis is put on the history of ideas, establishing a pedigree for the situationists, as if that pedigree lent credibility. This is juvenile.
gran_colombia commented on OpenAI's chaos does not add up builtnotfound.proseful.co... · Posted by u/Satam
My main confusion is still what was the fireable offense ?
CEOs don't need an offense to be fired. They are entirely at will. The board can fire a CEO because it feels like it. The offense could be as muddy as 'we broadly dislike the current direction'.
gran_colombia commented on OpenAI's chaos does not add up builtnotfound.proseful.co... · Posted by u/Satam
My main confusion is still what was the fireable offense ?
CEOs don't need an offense to be fired. They are entirely at will. The board can fire a CEO because it feels like it. The offense could be as muddy as 'we broadly dislike the current direction'.
gran_colombia commented on Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse jessicawildfire.substack.... · Posted by u/ambientenv
The economy actually needs colleges and universities, for purely practical reasons. They’ve been keeping about 15–20 million young adults out of the job market. They suppress unemployment.
If nothing else, affordable college was a holding tank for America’s youth. We kept them occupied and entertained.
This fundamentally misunderstands economics. There isn’t a fixed lump of labor that we want to save up for our favorite people.
We don’t want to warehouse adults because it’s doubly destructive. The students are out of the labor market not producing anything and the people babysitting them aren’t producing anything either. That makes us all poorer.
It's a joke.
gran_colombia commented on Embodiment is indispensable for AGI keerthanapg.com/tech/embo... · Posted by u/keerthanpg
This is something I always thought. AGI must learn what simple ideas such as 'a thing' are, how to find a path (look at how arboreal species navigate) and how that relates to movement, etc. Our physical interactions with the world, as much as our senses, inform everything we do about the world.
I do not understand why we would want AGI though. Seems like we already have humans for that.
Absolutely agreed. At some point it's just ethnoracism, masquerading as virtue-signaling.
"How does this action help end the war in Ukraine?" should be the litmus test, and if the logic to get there is too tortured, maybe rethink the action.
The other test is also, "How does this action help prevent Putin's next invasion?" Actions should not only be about applying pressure now, it's about destroying a literally imperialist government's ability to win its wars. So anything which undermines any aspect of the Russian economy is fair game. If we can keep them from training people, good. If we can keep them from raising taxes, good. If we can keep them from feeding their troops, good. If we can usher in strikes over unpaid wages, good. If East European stores stop importing Russian goods, good.
Taking actions is what got us here. Many of the times when the West tries to push institutions east Russia retaliates. Look at the Georgia war and Crimea for example.
Russia does not invade in reaction to NATO expansion. NATO expands in reaction to Russian invasions. Notice how NATO does not expand militarily. Not once. Notice how Russia expands militarily, every time.
It's not as if anyone was expecting General Relativity to fail the test. Gravitational time dilation is a thing observed since the 1970s, atomic clocks have compensation for altitude and gravitational potential applied to them and that's part of the TAI and UTC standards we use every day, knowingly or not.
On the other hand, Einstein lost his vendetta against Quantum physics, badly, since Alain Aspect's 1980 experiment showing Bell's inequalities are violated.
Einstein did not really have a vendetta against Quantum physics. He won a Nobel for having established the basic theory of the photoelectric effect. I know what you mean, but it's not like he thought the idea was ridiculous, he came up with it in his youth.
This is not serious.
The article itself seems generated.