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These math advances are more or less zero-sum wins, as in there's not much gained for the outside world, and a chance to prove an important theorem is taken away from humans. In a sense it's hard to celebrate it. If, however, they were able to advance medicine, science or technology, it would be a different story.

That should still be possible if you get a decent PhD and some teaching experience. Typically the research oriented people don't care for the less prestigious teaching positions on college level. At least, that was my experience back in the day.

They'll eat a shit sandwich if it means others have to smell their breath.

That's a rather strange concern to have.

*Algebraic geometry

"There's purpose of science is to make boring what was once exciting."

-Boaz Barak

It freaked me out he'd let his 9 year old watch T2, but then again, I was probably around that age when I first saw it and I'm not in prison (yet).

Talking and deciphering the thoughts of our AI gods?

Well, academia was always like this. There was never room for chill people to begin with.

It's not weird at all if you consider half the commenters here are talking straight out of their asses. Apparently being mediocre at software engineering makes you an expert in criticizing other fields.

Also, the independent authors might have spent some time to actually understanding the results and producing a readable manuscript. The AI papers are pretty badly written.

Also not sure how accessible the nuclear launch API is. I doubt we are just a REST request away from a nuclear catastrophe.

What I mean here that it's a trade off.

Choosing a decaying city might mean lower taxes. Or better health care. Or tax breaks for the elites. You know, things we choose as a collective.

Right, then you need a medical professional willing to do it, and that probably gets difficult.

I'm against the death penalty, but the engineer in me wants to solve this problem.

So why not put the patient to sleep first with anesthetic drugs? After that the mask should not be a bother.

I find it fairly plausible that life exists anywhere the conditions are even slightly favorable. All you need is just enough time for some atoms to form a self-replicating configuration and that pretty much kick starts it.

It might not evolve into something very complex, though.

This comic is amazing. When I first discovered it I spent 2 days reading it at every chance I got. What a crazy story.

Mate, this is how almost anyone on YouTube operates. They're presenters, not researchers. The AI tells only bothers me if it distracts from the video.

Interesting point, and I tend to agree. People really require integrity from anyone perceived to be on the left, whereas you can be as disgusting as you want on the right and it won't hurt you even a bit. Works in politics too.

Not sure whywhy people hate on you. YouTube is about presentation, not original research.

It's just ao insane that a company that's sitting on a massive pile of cash and has been wildly profitable for decades still needs to do this. I suppose the valuation requires more growth, and they're out of good ideas.

Even if not, you'll find yourself in a hot mess explaining why you sent the signed contract to the other party.

No worries, and thank you as well.

By the way, if I'm not completely mistaken, Gödel's argument to show the incompleteness of mathematics relies on encoding all mathematical statements as numbers. So I'm certainly not being very original here.

Firstly, I'm very happy we're having this conversation. It's so pointless, yet pedantic it warms my heart in the best way possible.

Secondly, I stand by the statement that there is no merit to this joke. This is because the way it defines interesting is very hand-wavy. There are interesting and non-interesting problems, but by a sleigh of hand you can turn the non-interesting problems interesting, thus proving that basically everything in the universe is interesting. At least in the mathematically describable universe. When everything is interesting, nothing is interesting. So we can dismiss the proof as a silly joke.

What mathematicians find interesting is a different story. However, we can almost certainly say there is only a finite number of problems mathematicians as physical beings can solve. If we have 200 mathematical symbols at our disposal, and we consider all strings of these symbols of length 1000,000, we have captured all the descriptions of problems that fit to 1M symbols. But that's a finite number. Going beyond that starts to be difficult for a human to grasp (if 1M is not too much already), so all mathematical problems that are solvable by a physical mathematician are in that set of strings. And that's not even saying anything about whether or not they're interesting..

The orthodox jews have some wacky mental acrobatics that you might like!

You're not allowed to work on Saturdays, and even turning the lights on counts as work. So if you want to have lights on on Saturday, you turn them on on Friday. If you want to read in bed, you get a lamp that stays on, but where you can slide a shade in front of the lamp, covering the light.

I'm seriously impressed by this.

Yeah, I've seen this before as well. I guess I've just become old and grumpy and can't appreciate jokes like these anymore. Also taking jokes seriously is peak HN so..

Edit: actually, forget about the above. I just find it very annoying when people dismiss good conversations with not-so-good jokes.

But now you're talking about a different thing. First, you said they don't even want to solve it so they'll have voters in the future. Now, you say they want to solve it, but the wrong way. So which one is it?

I don't believe this is basically ever the case. The reality is more like that simple promises often collide with messy reality, and the compromise solution ends up solving a fraction of the original promise.

Just as it was foretold, the Torment Nexus is coming and it has some really cool tech in it.