Brian Allen @HungryMathProf

>the truth is that the vast majority of what we call thinking is also just regurgitating or recombining thoughts we've seen already, what frontier models can already do is simply not that different from what we do nearly all the time Fully agree with this.

QC @QiaochuYuan

7 days ago

there are people who have load-bearing beliefs about human intelligence generally and their intelligence specifically that increasing AI capabilities render increasingly obviously fake, and they are not going to have a good time. the truth is that the vast majority of what we

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there are people who have load-bearing beliefs about human intelligence generally and their intelligence specifically that increasing AI capabilities render increasingly obviously fake, and they are not going to have a good time. the truth is that the vast majority of what we call thinking is also just regurgitating or recombining thoughts we've seen already, what frontier models can already do is simply not that different from what we do nearly all the time. your highly original thoughts that demonstrate the depth and breadth of your soul are mostly warmed-over reheated leftovers of leftovers of thoughts that were first articulated centuries if not millennia ago. this is completely fine and ordinary and not a problem, unless you were basing your ego defenses on this very popular but largely fake misunderstanding of what thoughts are and where they come from. you cannot own a thought. they were never yours to accrete your sense of self around. they are farts that gently pass through the butthole of your mind, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

@DhruvPathak672 @stevenstrogatz Yeah, I agree. The funny thing is that the way it is stated is an insulting way to say theoretical physics 🤣

@stevenstrogatz I am confused by the second category. Weirdly specific prize category.

I just read that Charles Darwin made Pros-and-Cons list when deciding whether or not he should get married (to his first cousin). One of the 9 benefits to staying single: “more money for books”

History forgets fast. The creators of the MRI got rejected by the NIH for a grant. Then their paper got rejected by Nature. The company they worked for thought it was a waste of time to even draft the patent documents. Took 15 years from there to become clinically useful.

@h00208212 @AmansParekh @JDHamkins Intuitively they are the same. That being said, when you assume "phi is provable" you are assuming that the sentence, "phi is provable" is true but you dont actually have a proof of phi. You would need the proof to know that phi was true.

@AmansParekh @JDHamkins To see why this is not the case you have to focus on the way @JDHamkins stated things more precisely in the second sentence of his post.

@Philip_Goff Are we just forgetting about all the obvious differences between my pain and your pain from my point of view?

Mythos invented its own language, then switched back to English to talk to humans (AI safety researchers have been warning of this "Neuralese" risk for years. If AIs stop reasoning in English, we can't monitor their thoughts, which means we can't detect scheming.)

Adam Karvonen @a_karvonen

2 months ago

Another quite successful prediction by @DKokotajlo : Fable is intentionally nerfed for frontier ML research. This is within ~3 months of Daniel's prediction of Q1 2026 (made in 2023). Although I don't think Mythos is automating ML research to the same extent as his prediction.

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@orr_shalit @AlexKontorovich But would anyone get paid to do this work?

take that, topologists

Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov

3 months ago

What do you think?

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I recently heard someone equate college students using AI as equivalent to using calculators. I laughed. This is not what we’re seeing in the humanities and social sciences. Students are using AI to avoid learning and deep-think writing assignments. It’s not a “tool.”

Renowned philosopher and psychiatrist @dr_mcgilchrist explains his embrace of Christian faith in a conversation with influential neuroscientist @anilkseth on minds, consciousness and God. 🧠✝️ ▶️ WATCH or 🎧 LISTEN now to the full episode of Uncommon Ground! 👉 justinbrierley.com/uncommon-groun…

Say it again louder for the folks in the back: AI makes you stupid

Nav Toor @heynavtoor

5 months ago

🚨BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT. What they found should concern every single person reading this. ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months. Here's how

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Elena Giorgi, @columbia, will give an Invited Address at the 2026 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting at Boston College, on March 28, titled "The Nonlinear Stability of Black Holes: An Overview." Abstract: Black holes are the most striking predictions of General Relativity and are by now understood to be fundamental objects in our universe. In this colloquium talk, I will provide an overview of their mathematical properties, in particular concerning their stability as solutions to the Einstein equation, and give a bird’s-eye view of the recent proof of the nonlinear stability of the slowly rotating Kerr black holes (joint with Klainerman-Szeftel). Link in comments.

✨📖 I WROTE A BOOK! 📖✨ “Care of the Sexual Self” came out & I’m excited to share it. Published by Bloomsbury, it’s for anyone curious about the philosophy of sex, sex education, and the policies that shape it. But at its heart, it’s about how we become who we are sexually.

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Many college professors are discovering that students learn less when they have laptops open. Many of us are banning their use in class. Putting computers and tablets on students desks in K-12 may turn out to be among the costliest mistakes in the history of education

Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz

5 months ago

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets in classrooms. The result: Gen Z is the first generation to score lower on standardized tests than their parents. fortune.com/2026/02/21/lap…

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@Philip_Goff @danieldennett @davidpapineau 1 is of course more reasonable then how you phrase it here might suggest. All one has to claim is that one could theoretically know what it is like to see red if we could reconstruct the brain states properly. One does not have to expect to be able to do this in practice.