optimalsolver

The coming years are gonna be rough for the human exceptionalism crowd.

Now here's an interesting thought: Would you have deduced that stars are distant suns if you'd lived in the ancient world?

Apparently the only pre-modern people (i.e. pre-Giordano Bruno) recorded as making the claim were Anaxagoras and Aristarchus of Samos [0], but their ideas were completely rejected by contemporaries.

In retrospect, it just seems so blindingly obvious that I'm tempted to believe that I too would have seen through the Aristotelean BS.

But surely there must be aspects of reality that will seem similarly obvious to future generations, and yet I don't feel any insights coming on.

I should say, Aristarchus is the ideal of maximizing information from minimal data:

>Aristarchus of Samos (Samos is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea) lived from about 310 to 230 BC, about 2250 years ago. He measured the size and distance of the Sun and, though his observations were inaccurate, found that the Sun is much larger than the Earth. Aristarchus then suggested that the small Earth orbits around the big Sun rather than the other way around, and he also suspected that stars were nothing but distant suns, but his ideas were rejected and later forgotten, and he, too, was threatened for suggesting such things

[0] https://solar-center.stanford.edu/FAQ/Qsunasstar.html

Or SBF playing Legends on investor calls.

He spared no expense.

For those following along at home, that's the same US Gov which is currently killing civilians protesting against its own activities.

I wouldn't be surprised if both of those were true.

How soon will the leading LLMs ingest the updated documentation? Because I'm certainly not going to.

I smiled when I saw the NYT headline asking for an "independent inquiry". Are they living in an alternate reality? These guys are not gonna give two fucks about what some toothless committee concludes three years from now.

Relevant SMBC, "Computer scientist vs computer engineer": https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17

>I want to see full session transcripts, but we don't have enough tool support for that broadly

I think AI could help with that.

on one hand

on the other hand

Unless the AI's suggestion to add glue kills him:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/05/31/google-ai-...

The Universe (which others call the Golden Gate Bridge), is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite series of spans.

@PaulDavisThe1st I'd love to hear your take on these papers.

Typo:

"The behvior summary"

>A star trek replicator for software

That's a very interesting way to put it.

Most of the great music I've discovered is thanks to Spotify's "Play song radio" feature.

And a poet.

Exploring new mushrooms is more likely to end in agonizing death than piercing the veil of reality.

"So you're telling me there's a financial exchange for Magic The Gathering players? How do I put all my money in this?"

-Someone in 2010

You're absolutely right! That was a category 5. Thanks for pointing that out.

I always recommend the book Starting Forth [0].

It has the most charming illustrations I've ever seen in a text book.

[0] https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/

Thanks for the chuckle.

*contexts

It was one of these guys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Sharks

Your username makes me think you might be a little biased.

And probably also right.

Definitely worth a watch.

Do NOT let strange dogs into the base.

>the laws of physics are the same today as they were yesterday and will be tomorrow

We do not actually know that the current laws of physics will still hold tomorrow, we just assume they will. That's the entire problem of induction:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/