If Nietzsche knew that the only part of his philosophy referenced in 2026 AI discourse was “the last man”, he would have killed himself
I wonder how many Millennium Prize problems Anthropic has solved internally
Technological progress is happening way too fast
The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City.
Our administration will make sure workers and owners are protected and the horses are safe.
Two camps in SWE right now. One things superintelligent AI will write raw machine code. The other things ASI will write JavaScript
What is the point of Rust, when you can write C++ and ask Claude if it has any bugs?
Most developers learn Rust without realizing how many doors it can open.
Rust + Axum → Backend Engineer
Rust + Tokio → Distributed Systems Engineer
Rust + WebAssembly → WebAssembly Engineer
Rust + Tauri → Desktop App Developer
Rust + Bevy → Game Developer
Rust + wgpu → Graphics Engineer
Rust + Embedded → Embedded Systems Engineer
Rust + Linux Kernel → Kernel Developer
Rust + Solana → Blockchain Developer
Rust + PyO3 → Python Integration Engineer
Rust + AWS Lambda → Serverless Engineer
Rust + Polars → Data Engineer
One language. 12 career paths🤝
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Imagination is the new moat
besides the cancer analogy, Tao's Math 2.0 slides are quite clear-headed & illustrate a path forward
Math 1.0 operated under the assumption of "proof scarcity", and most institutions and incentives were designed around this
Math 2.0, under proof abundance, has to expand the research frontier & decenter problem solving in favor of deeper human understanding, experimentation, and new principles and syntheses of research.
"The primary bottleneck to achieving “Math 2.0” is not technology, or even institutional culture. It is imagination."
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I can’t believe he wants to stop the public from understanding *squints* Milne's rationality conjecture for abelian varieties, including residue characteristic. If OpenAI had a cure for cancer, would you want them to hide it?
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Fields medallist Hugo Duminil-Copin was deeply shaken by OpenAI’s release of more than 700 AI-generated mathematical manuscripts, including work on 16 questions directly relevant to his research.
“On Tuesday night, I cried, and it woke up my daughter”
“They have annihilated my field of research.”
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Silicon Valley has finally figured out how to make AI products for middle class Americans with all the new personal agents. They’re solving real day to day problems for the everyday man again, not just the elite. Perfect use case I tested out with it: booking and running my middle class family’s vacation. My personal agent booked my family’s flights to Nice, France and even the private shuttles to St. Tropez. Our agent even proactively got us an early check-in at our villa when it noticed that our au pair arrived early. We didn’t have any excursions booked, so I had the agent decide! Catamaran cruise, helicopter rides, the nicest restaurants on the Rivera. I gave it my JPMorgan Reserve card and told it go ham, money is no problem, and man did it deliver. I’m super bullish on the technological adoption here.
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Jet packs are real, but because they require (1) high skill and (2) high risk of injury, none of us have ever used them. The same can be said about another common childhood fantasy: falling in love
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can you imagine what the invention of the affordable personal jetpack would do for the world
I subscribe to neo-Carnapian deflationist position in the LLM consciousness debate
Prediction: humans will be debating LLM consciousness 500 years in the future
Rewrite Navier Stokes and give the Millennium Prize to whatever human cleaned it up!
So many people are willing to accept “the perfect fifth is 1.5” without recognizing it forces some other part of their belief system to become an ugly, gross, nonterminating irrational number. Sad!
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The “perfect” fifth in music theory approximates to 1.5. But in reality it is 1.4983070768 (nonrepeating)
Guys I took the square root of 3 and got this ugly chungus number. Fuck this stupid chud universe
The “perfect” fifth in music theory approximates to 1.5. But in reality it is 1.4983070768 (nonrepeating)
There are at least 2 accounts whose largest viral posts would have died in obscurity if I didn’t retweet them
What's the word/grammar hill you are absolutely dying on?
(Tucker Carlson voice) so… what *is* slutcon…?
As cringe as it is to say this. America is going to hear the arguments of the EAs and Rationalists. They will debate and discuss them. The only things that matter: the quality of their argument.
The content of their character? Their financial backers? Irrelevant
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This is going to be an omega hot take but the EA/Rationalist sex cults are not offensive outside tech bubbles
Society is already in such a desensitized state due to OnlyFans pervasively entering into influencer culture
The tech industry is more prudish than the world at large
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