galactushonor

> why mathematicians should widely receive funding for merely understanding things, and how competition for postdoc and tenure positions would work under these circumstances.

This is blinders on thinking. The future we are looking at with the help of AI is full of abundance. Money is not an issue in that world.

I have a simple question. When a company gets compromised, how come there are no alarms when TBs of data gets egressed?

Are there higher dimensional analogues and generalization of space filling curves? Space filling surfaces (wrt 3D) or volumes (in 4D). Are they useful in any sense?

> It didn't quite work out so now people are looking for other strategies.

World will bifurcate into West and East with their own spheres of influence. As JD Vance said, US thought that China will be perpetually kept busy and enslaved in low level manufacturing work and the design and higher level work would happen in Cupertino. Too bad, that didn't pan out well and now US Empire is getting challenged by China.

> it had of course hallucinated what the regulation actually required

Did it do the correct job once you put the regulations doc(s) in the context?

How much new software does the world need in perpetuity?

Do we need that software so fast? We are able to manage our complex world just fine with support people answering questions within next 48 hours.

For which poor unemployed people who just got laid off due to AI are the Robots building house for? More abstractly, for whom are we creating are these productivity miracles and surplus for. Does a rich person suddenly need a million iPhones for himself and himself alone?

This time the have-nots have a better target to attack. The datacenters. A concentrated physical manifestation of would-be trillionaire superrichs.

Some loose thoughts on AI singularity

We have to handle this phase transition process deftly.

We have so many problems to solve and we need people to solve them. AI will aid them in that.

Let's say there are there are only 1 million people in the world and all the money is concentrated under 1 person. There will be no economy at all. This implies some form of UBI is coming. This is the main reason why Christian tradition had the concept of Debt Jubilee

If UBI is not coming, youths will force the rich to share the abundance because they now a concentrated target to attack. ie Data centres. Concentration works both ways. Rich can accumulate power. But that power has a physical manifestation. And that could get attacked.

An employee allegedly burned down a 1.2 million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark toilet paper warehouse in Ontario, California, causing an estimated ($500) million in damage. The massive 2026 Ontario Warehouse Fire was set on April 7, 2026.