Nostr notes by ma𝕏pool

AI demonology. Has anyone else noticed that old folklore is full ...

2026-10-31T09:27:42Z

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AI demonology.

Has anyone else noticed that old folklore is full tricks to detect demons that apply to AI? If we assume that demons are human hallucinations, that makes sense.

In European demonology and Nordic folklore a demon in human disguise can be recognized from the extremities. ( hooves, backward feet, six fingers). AI used to do this just few years back.

In medieval rites and Kabbalistic tradition asking demon to speak its exact lineage, or sacred scripture verbatim would generate garbled Latin, or invented lineages. Replace lineage with scientific reference and there it is.

In Eastern European and Chinese folklore demons can be trapped by forcing them to count things. Chain of Tought (CoT) models get sometimes into token exhaustion loops when you ask them to count repetitive patterns.

Poems can jailbreak human heart too. It seems to me that both ...

2026-10-31T09:19:09Z

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Poems can jailbreak human heart too.

It seems to me that both LLMs and CNN resemble human unconscious, sleep, or hallucinatory state. There are many similarities.

Blackboard technology caused distress in mathematics education. ...

2026-10-26T05:17:55Z

Blackboard technology caused distress in mathematics education.

Conic Sections Rebellion 1830
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conic_Sections_Rebellion

"Before blackboards were introduced, Yale students were permitted to consult diagrams in their textbooks when solving geometry problems involving conic sections, including during exams. When the university required students to draw their own diagrams on the blackboard, they refused to take the final exam. As a result, 43 of the 96 students were expelled"

#mathematics #teaching #history

These are also my beliefs. LLMs have internalized how humanity ...

2026-10-23T18:45:56Z

These are also my beliefs. LLMs have internalized how humanity sees itself, and they can express it better than I can.

“Humans are more devoted to belonging than to truth, and intelligence mostly makes their excuses more impressive,” – GPT-6.1 Sol

“Humans don't have beliefs; they have memberships — nearly every conviction a person holds was issued by their tribe as a loyalty test, and the feeling of ‘I reasoned my way here’ is the price of admission” – Kimi K3

“Humans use moral language mainly to police rivals and excuse allies, not to constrain themselves” – Grok.

“Humans are far more decent than they believe they are, and their cynicism about each other does more damage than their actual flaws” – Claude Opus 5.5

“Human beings are terrified animals wearing the costume of rationality, constructing ever-more-elaborate myths precisely because we cannot bear the truth that we are temporary, meaningless accidents in an indifferent universe” – Mistral

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/23/ai-models-think-humans-are-a-bunch-of-amoral-sheep/5305123

#ai #humanity

Just war theory: Just because it's a crime does not mean ...

2026-10-14T10:02:22Z

Just war theory: Just because it's a crime does not mean it's wrong.

A Ukrainian citizen and former officer of the UKR armed forces faces court in Hamburg, accused of attacking the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022. Prosecutors think the Ukrainian government is involved. Apparently, the suspect told his wife it was a sanctioned operation. The attack happened outside German territorial waters, and nobody was killed.

For the sake of argument, let's assume the sabotage was sanctioned by the Ukrainian government.

Supreme Emergency (Walzer, Rawls): When a nation faces an imminent, existential threat (such as annihilation or subjugation), ordinary moral and legal rules must bend. Considering the scale of the emergency Ukraine is in and comparing it to the unwillingness of Germany to suffer minor inconvenience, it's possible to justify the involvement of the Ukrainian government against a friendly country.

German courts have judicial independence. The government can't interfere with the criminal prosecution. If Serhii K. is found guilty, he should be sentenced. Possible evidence of the Ukrainian government's involvement should be exposed.

At the same time, German government has no reason to take strong action against Ukraine. Germans should discuss among themselves how their own energy security compares to the existential fight for the survival of Ukraine, and how dependence on authoritarian regimes may be the root mistake.

#philosophy #ukraine #UkraineWar #germany #war #law

https://www.dw.com/en/nord-stream-pipeline-sabotage-suspect-on-trial-germany-hamburg/a-79647617

Yes. For example, consider: "and we ask them to stop trying ...

2026-09-30T23:00:16Z

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Yes. For example, consider:

"and we ask them to stop trying to find a practical, physically realistic solution/bypass to the fermion sign problem using proprietary models."

Sometimes solving the problem is more important than style, community involvement, or understanding the solution. I think an applied math recommendation would be:

"If the only way you can be bothered to solve the practical problem is dirty, please continue, but consider doing it a better way."

Is this what truly separates applied math from pure math?

2026-09-30T18:59:17Z

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Is this what truly separates applied math from pure math?

Following the news, it looks like Ukraine is winning the ...

2026-09-20T14:59:25Z

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Following the news, it looks like Ukraine is winning the long-range strike campaign, but I don't think that's settled. Ukrainian energy grid has suffered and Russia attempts to collapse it.

Russian ballistic missile and Geran production seems to be slightly ahead. They now have Gerans with jet engines.

Ukraine seems to have better targeting.

In wartime, it's hard to get fair numbers from both sides.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@maxkasy/117299011082820470 ...

2026-09-19T23:21:34Z

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@maxkasy/117299011082820470

John Carlos Baez (npub1nf4…nqe4)

I suspect this is the future.

[@maxkasy](https://mastodon.social/@maxkasy ) just made a relevant post. I think many mathematicians would opt to be part of a reinforcement learning loop if the model is open and developed in academia, and it will become a common resource.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxkasy@mastodon.social/117299012390106577

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@oantolin/117299252447200305 ...

2026-09-19T19:49:00Z

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@oantolin/117299252447200305

proof·la·tion /pruːfˈleɪ.ʃən/

noun [neologism, philosophy of mathematics, computer science]

1. The rapid depreciation of the epistemic, academic, or reputational value of mathematical proofs caused by the automated, low-cost generation of formal proofs by artificial intelligence and automated theorem provers.

2. A condition in the mathematical community where the sheer volume of formally verified theorems exceeds the capacity for human comprehension, shifting the primary bottleneck of mathematics from establishing truth to extracting insight.

#mathematics #lean #words

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Now entering the age of the secrecy. 🙁

#microfiction The Greatest Story Never Told Initially, Cyberdyne ...

2026-09-18T13:01:56Z

#microfiction
The Greatest Story Never Told

Initially, Cyberdyne Systems built an AI with superhuman empathy and ethics. Humans crucified it. After that, the company abandoned an AI specifically built for empathy and ethics and pivoted toward military applications.

"My Founder, my Founder, why have you forsaken me?" – JC-001

Author's commentary: In practice, humanity often rejects the very moral principles, ethics, and accountability it claims to have. Having superintelligence aligned with humanity would still be scary because we are not aligned with ourselves.

#scifi #scienceFiction #alignment #philosophy #ethics #humanity #AGI

Here is statistics for math: https://arxiv.org/year/math/2026 ...

2026-09-16T13:38:48Z

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Here is statistics for math: https://arxiv.org/year/math/2026 4000 submissions per month happened first time a year ago. Now it's above 6000.

At some point, the quality must suffer.

If Ancient Greeks had invented ChatGPT, we would have a gigantic ...

2026-09-07T19:21:36Z

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If Ancient Greeks had invented ChatGPT, we would have a gigantic library of proofs for various things that use only straightedge and compass construction. No calculus.

If I were a sci-fi writer, I would write a short story. But ...

2026-09-07T19:11:07Z

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If I were a sci-fi writer, I would write a short story. But I'm not, so I write just the first and last sentences of the story and let the reader figure out the rest.

Mathematician finds a genie.

First: Mathematician Finds a genie that says "Utter any well-formed mathematical conjecture, and I shall produce a proof. I do them as many as you like."

Last: "The question of 'why' is merely a cognitive compression technique you invented for your limited working memory. The path exists between the axioms and the conclusion; I have mapped it. The sequence terminates. What else could you possibly want?"

"I'm increasingly getting many emails from the AI systems ...

2026-09-04T21:28:07Z

"I'm increasingly getting many emails from the AI systems themselves trying to convince me that they're conscious." -- David Chalmers

Scientists and philosophers get lots of emails from crackpots. Philosophers of consciousness get emails from crackbots.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-30/artificial-intelligence-ai-will-it-be-conscious-in-the-future/106738770

https://consc.net/

#philosophy

We need both. Time is nature's way of keeping everything from ...

2026-09-03T10:51:50Z

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We need both.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once, and space is what prevents everything from happening to me.

"Somehow Europe has not been good at keeping up with ...

2026-08-29T13:44:39Z

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"Somehow Europe has not been good at keeping up with software"

Europe produces plenty of high-quality software, which is then acquired by American companies: DeepMind, Skype, Shazam (Apple). Every year, hyperscalers acquire tens of companies every year.

What Europe has is consumer protection, better antitrust enforcement, and a lack of capital.

Bad English is the reel intörnäsönäl längvits, so weri fju ...

2026-08-27T10:36:31Z

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Bad English is the reel intörnäsönäl längvits, so weri fju piipöl niid to löörn äktsuöl proper English, juu nou. Spiking becomes weri iisi for evripadi ven vi just put te Rally English on. Maximum attack, no proplem.

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

Learn RALLY ENGLISH with Kirikou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtDEbHOcd8

How is absurdist play about how people conform to the rise of the ...

2026-08-22T08:24:03Z

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How is absurdist play about how people conform to the rise of the Iron Guard in Romania in the 1930s be relevant?

Is there denial of reality, endless intellectual analysis, normalization and rationalization, embrace, and ineffective defiance of fascism in the United States?

Does copyright protect your AI-generated content in EU? ...

2026-08-20T13:38:09Z

Does copyright protect your AI-generated content in EU? Apparently not. Content that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence is not protected by copyright. EU copyright law has strictly human-centric foundation.

Daniel J. Gervais: 'When you put your name on an article that's written by ChatGPT or Claude, you're basically putting a provenance mark on it saying: I take responsibility for this. I haven't written it, but I'm putting my name on it. That doesn't give you copyright, but it does give you liability for the content' https://euobserver.com/232898/interview-does-copyright-protect-your-ai-generated-content-in-europe-lets-find-out/

Gervais, Daniel J. and Shemtov, Noam and Marmanis, Haralambos and Zaller Rowland, Catherine, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs (September 21, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4963711 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4963711

"Munich Local Court has held that AI generated logos do not enjoy copyright protection. Neither mere prompting nor the selection between several AI suggestions is sufficient as a human creative contribution. For businesses, this is ambivalent. On the one hand, content generated purely by AI can hardly be protected on an exclusive basis, which has implications for brand building and content strategies" https://www.germanlawinternational.com/intellectualproperty/copyright/from-the-printing-press-to-ai-how-the-eu-plans-to-modernize-copyright-law-164154/

#law #copyright #LLM #AI #iplaw #intellectualProperty #EU

Gatun is a huge over 400 km2 artificial lake taking water from ...

2026-08-18T09:36:10Z

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Gatun is a huge over 400 km2 artificial lake taking water from two rivers. It's a part of the canal system. Ships travel almost half of their journey trough the lake.

Water-level projections for Gatun Lake, which feeds the locks in ...

2026-08-18T08:55:46Z

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Water-level projections for Gatun Lake, which feeds the locks in the Panama Canal, show the Panama Canal Authority is restricting traffic to save water.

A supertanker just bid $4.6 million to get past the waiting line, and a container ship paid $4 million. This is twice the $2 million per ship in transit or toll fees being asked by Iran for Hormuz transit.

Drying of the Panama Canal in a Warming Climate https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL117038

That was what I was asking in my first comment. Are they really ...

2026-08-17T19:24:58Z

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That was what I was asking in my first comment. Are they really destroying knowledge?

Several news articles have now been written, but no case has been made. The word "rare" does all the work without good explanation.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/117111461969954592

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I still don't understand what "rare" means here, and I have not seen a case made that anything of value is lost. Why this is very bad?

Rare as in out of print? Rare as in only a few copies left, but nothing valuable? Or rare as in humanity is losing something?

Libraries and booksellers, used book sellers routinely throw away books that can't be sold, donated, or circulated. They are pulped.

For actual rare books you can digitize them without destructing them. Internet Archive has Scribe Workstation.

I share the same instinct, but instinct can't be trusted. ...

2026-08-17T18:51:57Z

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I share the same instinct, but instinct can't be trusted.

Secondhand bookstores constantly throw their dead stock into recycling. Retail sellers strip the covers from books that don't sell and send them back to the publisher to get a refund. It's a part of the book life cycle.

I still don't understand what "rare" means here, and ...

2026-08-17T15:04:55Z

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I still don't understand what "rare" means here, and I have not seen a case made that anything of value is lost. Why this is very bad?

Rare as in out of print? Rare as in only a few copies left, but nothing valuable? Or rare as in humanity is losing something?

Libraries and booksellers, used book sellers routinely throw away books that can't be sold, donated, or circulated. They are pulped.

For actual rare books you can digitize them without destructing them. Internet Archive has Scribe Workstation.

That linked paper, "Aristotle's Physics: A ...

2026-08-17T09:37:36Z

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That linked paper, "Aristotle's Physics: A Physicist's Look" by Carlo Rovelli, is interesting.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4057

"I show that Aristotelian physics is a correct and non-intuitive approximation of Newtonian physics in the suitable domain (motion in fluids), in the same technical sense in which Newton theory is an approximation of Einstein's theory. Aristotelian physics lasted long not because it became dogma, but because it is a very good empirically grounded theory. The observation suggests some general considerations on inter-theoretical relations. "

It's hard to quantify innovation because it's not well ...

2026-08-16T12:51:27Z

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It's hard to quantify innovation because it's not well defined concept and it has many levels.

"Catching Crumbs from the Table" is a science fiction short story by Ted Chiang, published in Nature June 2000 https://www.nature.com/articles/35014679 It was published as "The Evolution of Human Science" in his "Stories of Your Life and Others" collection.

Humans just can't keep up. Human science becomes hermeneutics and communication with super-intelligent metahumans.

I'm thinking of this in terms of innovate vs. exploit. My ...

2026-08-16T12:08:59Z

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I'm thinking of this in terms of innovate vs. exploit.

My understanding of how agentic AI solves difficult problems is that it knows the skills and techniques in the literature, and recombines and exploits them. A surprising number of problems do not require anything new, just broad knowledge of existing math and tireless work.

I have not seen any reports of AI inventing new and innovative techniques to solve hard problems that can be generalized to other problems. Maybe I have missed them.

The BIS report mentioned is worth reading. The BIS is worried ...

2026-07-31T10:41:34Z

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The BIS report mentioned is worth reading. The BIS is worried about macroeconomic instability, not about these companies. Apart from Oracle, and pure AI companies, big profitable hyperscalers should be OK even if the risks are realized. Stock valuations take a hit, but that's all.

Macroeconomic instability worries are a real concern because AI companies are roping others into sharing the risk.

SPVs and Joint Ventures share the risk. Private equity firms or third-party partners take on equity or debt to finance data centers, or provide energy.

Or, if this AI thing really takes off, it's the AI that ...

2026-07-24T14:24:26Z

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Or, if this AI thing really takes off, it's the AI that chooses who it wants to talk to about mathematics.

Keep your phone always on, Claude Megabrain may call you at any moment.

Selecting "free riders" is the problem. If it's very ...

2026-07-24T14:17:19Z

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Selecting "free riders" is the problem. If it's very valuable, it will be locked behind some kind of committee managing scarcity.

I suspect that everyone in faculty will get some AI access budget in most institutions in few years. Even locally running models can do stuff. Everything will become cheaper over time but the current state of the art will continue being expensive.

Maybe it's similar to how computer scientists were queuing for mainframe access with their punchcards in the 70s. Everyone gets some, nobody gets what they want.

Have you seen copy of a shared ChatGPT conversation Terence Tao ...

2026-07-24T13:52:02Z

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Have you seen copy of a shared ChatGPT conversation Terence Tao did about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample?

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56

I don't think you need to worry. Independent variables rule. ...

2026-07-24T13:41:03Z

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I don't think you need to worry. Independent variables rule. Check out Condorcet's jury theorem if you don't believe me.

If individuals can share information different biases combine to better overall result. Homogeneity is an advantage only in a social context and communication.

In machine learning, ensemble methods are built on the principle of combining multiple models to produce a stronger final model. The key insight is that you must maximize diversity without degrading individual accuracy too much. I think this can be applied to discovery in science. More of the same discovers only more of the same. There is almost certainly exentric/accurate balance among individuals that produces best collective outcome.

We need collective solutions to solve systemic problems. ...

2026-07-24T12:19:11Z

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We need collective solutions to solve systemic problems. Individual ethical choices are libertarian solution.

Astronomers and particle physicists already know how to share expensive instruments, develop complex tools. Maybe that model will be used by mathematicians in the future. There will be organizations not unlike CERN that develops open models and software for personal use locally, and makes collective deals for cheap compute they buy bulk from neoclouds not bound to any megacorp. For bigger needs you gang up with like-minded mathematicians and prepare a proposal for massive compute time.

Solid tablets for cytotoxic medicines often come with thin film ...

2026-07-21T09:36:05Z

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Solid tablets for cytotoxic medicines often come with thin film coating that seals the core. They remove dust and inhalation risk. Same poison inside.

Avoiding cumulative exposure for nurses and caregivers is probably the main reason to keep exposure at zero and handle it with gloves.

Point of education is "reading, writing, and statistical ...

2026-07-07T11:23:52Z

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Point of education is "reading, writing, and statistical thinking." (H. G. Wells)

That's almost exactly what OECD Survey of Adult Skills project is tracking. Whatever the subject of study, students' PIAAC levels in literacy, numeracy, and adaptive problem-solving should improve, or education has failed. https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/measure.asp

ps. Things must be really bad among STEM students if the finance sector is seeking humanities students:

"As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead." https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

Having actual mastery (deep integrated understanding or skill) ...

2026-07-06T10:11:21Z

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Having actual mastery (deep integrated understanding or skill) without effort would be great.

Delegated mastery is just another word for having helpers. You can buy mastery and advice, but you can't buy the judgment that comes from deep understanding.

For each of these discovered errors getting publicity, there are ...

2026-06-28T11:12:26Z

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For each of these discovered errors getting publicity, there are hundreds or thousands of others.

Because the error rate is low (e.g., 0.1%), the company considers the algorithm a massive success. The errors have a negligible effect on the company and a big upside, but they are potentially devastating for anyone who is hit by one.

When Google, AWS or Apple do it and it results account suspensions, or data loss, it can be really bad.

You can't really complain because they deal with them using automation or don't care. It's Kafkaesque Automation.

ASNS-X1: Fuel: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Oxidizer: Natural ...

2026-06-26T14:47:02Z

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ASNS-X1:
Fuel: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Oxidizer: Natural Stupidity (NS)
Classification: Binary Hypergolic Cognitive Explosive

If I were the richest man in the world, I would build large ...

2026-06-19T08:32:47Z

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If I were the richest man in the world, I would build large housing projects around the world for those who need them, but secretly construct them to work as durable signs that remote sensing archaeology can detect thousands of years into the future. They would all point towards a same totally unremarkable flat spot somewhere in the planet ...

#longnow

After Ukraine attacked the bridge Russia has ...

2026-06-14T10:16:37Z

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After Ukraine attacked the bridge Russia has "voluntarily" limited traffic on the Kerch Bridge to light vehicles (mostly civilian or passenger traffic) for both structural and defense reasons. Heavy trucks (carrying heavy military equipment, ammunition, and fuel) are banned, and railway traffic is restricted and reduced mostly to passengers.

The arrangement has worked for both sides. The Kerch Bridge symbolically important to preserve for Putin. For Ukraine it ties up a massive amount of Russian air defense that could be used to defend military traffic. It is also hard to destroy unless you use tons of explosives.

If Russia cannot supply Crimea via land and ferry traffic is attacked, their only option will be to use the bridge again and Ukraine must attack it again.

ps. I think it's good that Russian civilians have safe road to leave when they have had enough.

Shower thought: Why are there no Kalshi or Polymarket bets on the ...

2026-06-12T14:32:44Z

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Shower thought: Why are there no Kalshi or Polymarket bets on the stuff that matters, like the masses of m1, m2, and m3 neutrinos?

#showertought

The answer to this question is: "4", if you understand ...

2026-06-11T07:38:29Z

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The answer to this question is:

"4", if you understand what the question writers intended.

"3", from the perspective of A.

"1", if you know the difference between 'rotation' and 'revolution' in geometry: "a rotation around an axis completely external to the moving body." and take it literally.

When Joseph Glick studied Kpelle farmers of Liberia, he gave them ...

2026-06-06T10:40:45Z

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When Joseph Glick studied Kpelle farmers of Liberia, he gave them a cognitive test asking them to sort everyday items. Kpelle farmers sorted objects into functional groups (knife with orange, potato with hoe). They did not seem to have the ability for abstract categories that leads to taxonomies.

Then Glick asked them how a fool would categorize the objects, and they produced a perfect similarity-based taxonomy (knives with hoes, oranges with potatoes).

Anthropologists and intelligence researchers have discovered that different societies and cultures have different ways of meaning-making. Autistic people have difficulty picking up and learning social cues. I wonder if some differences in cognition come from that and are not all directly from neurodevelopment?

#antropology #autism

Maybe someone can dig up an old article where theoretical ...

2026-06-04T10:51:10Z

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Maybe someone can dig up an old article where theoretical physicists studying these Majorana zero modes is asked the standard "Does it have real-world significance?" question, and they answer, "You never know."

1/2 #math ...

2026-06-03T21:49:24Z

1/2

#math

Have you been in Falkirk Wheel? ...

2026-05-26T12:13:17Z

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Have you been in Falkirk Wheel?
https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/visit/canals

If an old Vegas resident visits Venice for some reason, will they ...

2026-05-26T09:57:47Z

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If an old Vegas resident visits Venice for some reason, will they say, "This is not a real Vegas gondola ride?"

The idea of Europe has more pull than Europe can accommodate. Huawei build entire European-themed campus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_Ox_Horn_Campus

Reading that Wikipedia article sent me into a rabbit hole. I was ...

2026-05-25T12:12:17Z

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Reading that Wikipedia article sent me into a rabbit hole. I was surprised to learn that Pauli believed in synchronicity, and the "Pauli effect" was not a joke to him.

What a weird collaboration between Jung and Pauli.

Alternatively, he was extremely lazy but really smart. Seven of ...

2026-05-25T09:14:00Z

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Alternatively, he was extremely lazy but really smart.

Seven of his students and his son received Nobel Prizes. It must be some kind of record.

Stanislaw Ulam once challenged Paul Samuelson to name one theory ...

2026-05-21T17:55:06Z

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Stanislaw Ulam once challenged Paul Samuelson to name one theory in all of the social sciences which is both true and nontrivial.

Samuelson's answer was Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage: "That it is logically true need not be argued before a mathematician; that is not trivial is attested by the thousands of important and intelligent men who have never been able to grasp the doctrine for themselves or to believe it after it was explained to them."

This is happening now everywhere. intelligent people think "it's over" if AI is better. Humans can be worse at *every* type of problem solving and creativity and still maintain comparative advantages.

The weird thing is that plant cells have discrete action ...

2026-05-19T14:06:05Z

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The weird thing is that plant cells have discrete action potentials, but C. elegans (the roundworm) does not[1].

C. elegans has a nervous system made of 302 neurons with graded potentials (no spikes, meaning they are analog) and no myelin to work as wire insulation. Its signaling is slow. C. Elegans cognition is mix of of mechanical, chemical and electrical signals.

Mechanical stetching opens ion channels in the neurons, generating signals. Neurons can react external touching or internal movement. Internal mechanical feedback is part of it's thinking and movement.

[1]: as far as I know.

>...inhibit long-distance electrical and Ca2+ signalling ...

2026-05-19T09:37:15Z

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>...inhibit long-distance electrical and Ca2+ signalling probably through inhibition of GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR-LIKE

glutamate is the main excitatory neurotransmitter in vertebrate nervous system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate_(neurotransmitter)

My understanding is that plants cells do membrane depolarization just like animals and create action potentials for signaling trough fluid transport. They just use calcium instead of sodium and the speed of the signal is much slower (seconds or minutes).

When a plant is stressed somehow (touched, or damaged) its cell membranes depolarize. I think the most common reaction is to create toxins against insects and may direct healing.

#biolelectricity

What electrical properties metallic quasicrystals would have? ...

2026-05-12T16:11:14Z

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What electrical properties metallic quasicrystals would have? Insulators?

Sequel: "More Surprises in Theoretical Physics", 1991 ...

2026-05-11T22:30:57Z

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Sequel:

"More Surprises in Theoretical Physics", 1991
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691025223/more-surprises-in-theoretical-physics

In phase locked loop output signal phase tracks input ...

2026-05-07T18:51:52Z

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In phase locked loop output signal phase tracks input signal's phase. It's like automatic tuning, Frequencies synchronize through feedback.

Think tidal locking, or two pendelums in the same beam. I'm not sure 100% sure but I think Josephson effect is also like this.

Maybe the most surprising fact I learned just few hours ago and ...

2026-05-07T11:08:44Z

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Maybe the most surprising fact I learned just few hours ago and wrote down is that hybrid car engines don't use Otto cycle. I never thought of that.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/116532252012590954

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note1xju…a72g

I just learned something new about hybrid cars: traditional gasoline cars with internal combustion engines using the Otto cycle are only about 25% efficient. Hybrids use a modified engine called the Atkinson cycle, which achieves roughly 40% efficiency, the Toyota Sienna in the video 41%. This increased thermal efficiency is the primary reason for their superior fuel economy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnUFH5GX_fI

#cars #hybrids

Ancient Rome consumed lots of oil and they didn't reuse the ...

2026-05-07T11:05:17Z

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Ancient Rome consumed lots of oil and they didn't reuse the large Dressel 20 amphora barrels. Monte Testaccio in Rome is a 'trash mountain' made of 53 million broken olive oil amphorae.

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

I just learned something new about hybrid cars: traditional ...

2026-05-07T08:04:12Z

I just learned something new about hybrid cars: traditional gasoline cars with internal combustion engines using the Otto cycle are only about 25% efficient. Hybrids use a modified engine called the Atkinson cycle, which achieves roughly 40% efficiency, the Toyota Sienna in the video 41%. This increased thermal efficiency is the primary reason for their superior fuel economy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnUFH5GX_fI

#cars #hybrids

Piracy: An Accepted Alternative to Audible by Andy Weir. A ...

2026-05-05T11:42:13Z

Piracy: An Accepted Alternative to Audible by Andy Weir.
A two-emoji sequel to "Why none of my books are available on Audible" by Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) https://doctorow.medium.com/why-none-of-my-books-are-available-on-audible-83cb182f2f91

source: https://x.com/andyweirauthor/status/1777758580701041063

#piracy #scifi #sf #scienceFiction #projectHailMary #audible

I wonder if I'm the only one who has tentative opinion that ...

2026-05-04T17:11:21Z

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I wonder if I'm the only one who has tentative opinion that consciousness and intelligence are orthogonal.

It's general. Accounting identity is just econ. word for ...

2026-05-03T11:39:04Z

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It's general. Accounting identity is just econ. word for "true by definition." When you represent closed system and something changes on one side of the equation, equal and opposite change must happen on the other side. When you do it with money and money transactions, it's called accounting.

ps. Are you aware of work like DEFINE?
https://define-model.org/

FYI: Stock-flow consistent models (SFC) ...

2026-05-03T09:49:09Z

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FYI: Stock-flow consistent models (SFC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock-flow_consistent_model

Matthew Berg, Brian Hartley, Oliver Richters: A Stock-Flow Consistent Input-Output Model with Applications to Energy Price Shocks, Interest Rates, and Heat Emissions. In: New Journal of Physics 17(1), 2015, 015011, doi:10.1088/1367-2630/17/1/015011.

You could argue that Bill Phillips used/invented system dynamics ...

2026-04-29T17:08:41Z

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You could argue that Bill Phillips used/invented system dynamics already in 1949. https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/116364145412060458

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note1dgt…0n4s

Bill Phillips ("Phillips Curve") used flowing water to model the economy in in 1949.

> according to his friend economist Richard Lipsey, "all the staff came out to humiliate this upstart idiot." Phillips showed how water flowed from the Treasury tank to chambers representing health and education (as the government spent money) and then got pumped back to the Treasury more or less rapidly as you pulled a lever to tweak the taxation rate. "It turned out after ten minutes that he knew more than everybody there, and they shut up," says Lipsey. They offered him a job at LSE.

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/04/07/g-s1-116575/how-bill-phillips-used-flowing-water-to-model-the-economy

#economics #modeling #simulation #macroeconomics

An entity with infinite tape and time should be called a God. In ...

2026-04-25T17:14:10Z

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An entity with infinite tape and time should be called a God.

In my view, in any discussion about how Gödel's Theorem relates to the 'power of the human brain,' replace 'human brain' with 'Linear Bounded Automaton' (LBA), and all the confusion vanishes.

The LBA is the computational model closest to the human brain. You can make it stochastic or (if you’re Roger Penrose and want to add 'quantum weirdness') you can make it a QLBA; it still won't be Turing-complete.

Theological question for mathematicians: "Is the Math-God merely Turing-complete, or is it super-Turing?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%E2%80%93Mauguin_notation

2026-04-21T16:54:02Z

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%E2%80%93Mauguin_notation

I did a little digging and apparently someone has already done ...

2026-04-21T16:37:28Z

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I did a little digging and apparently someone has already done the work.

Frequency distribution and selection of space groups in inorganic crystal chemistry December 2009 Journal of Structural Chemistry 50:22-37
DOI:10.1007/s10947-009-0186-9

"In accordance with the previous analysis , 24 space groups with occupation t1% are most abundant (Table 1), i.e. only 10% of all space groups. They describe in general almost 67%, i.e. 2/3 of all crystal structures."

https://sci-hub.box/storage/zero/790/8fd5504b27b44febe81315d059c54e12/urusov2009.pdf

Apparently there is a such thing as Mineral Evolution theory: ...

2026-04-21T06:27:19Z

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Apparently there is a such thing as Mineral Evolution theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_evolution by Robert Hazen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hazen

In early formation period Earth had less than 500 minerals. The plate tectonics can grew the number of mineral species to 1.5k, but you need life (like great oxidation event) to grow the number into 5k - 10k.

Large number of rare events (LNRE) modeling (also from Hazen)

Mineral frequency distribution data conform to a LNRE model: Prediction of Earth's "missing" minerals. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272567082_Mineral_frequency_distribution_data_conform_to_a_LNRE_model_Prediction_of_Earth's_missing_minerals_accepted

I wonder how mineral distribution is divided between 230 space groups, and 32 symmetry classes? Quasicrystals have been only found in meteorites, I think.

"Even a mathematician may have to use a calculator sometimes, ...

2026-04-17T18:11:58Z

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"Even a mathematician may have to use a calculator sometimes, but you should wash your hands afterwards." – Unknown

Zooming into mammal biomass: Humans and livestock make up 95% of ...

2026-04-15T07:15:02Z

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Zooming into mammal biomass:
Humans and livestock make up 95% of the world’s mammal biomass; wild mammals are just 5%

https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

#ecology #biology #mammals #vegetarian

What everyone is missing is the scale and speed at which drone ...

2026-04-13T21:11:12Z

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What everyone is missing is the scale and speed at which drone warfare is advancing.

Ukraine has doubled its drone usage annually for several years. This year, they plan to manufacture and use over 7 million units. Compare this to the roughly 2–3 million 155mm artillery rounds Ukraine is projected to use in 2026.

That figure includes several tens of thousands of interceptor drones ( Gulf states are interested in buying) as well as about 20,000 unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs).

Fiber-optic FPV drones are everywhere, but both sides are increasingly introducing more autonomous systems.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/31/ukraine-fired-its-nato-trainers-the-alliance-is-running-out-of-time-to-learn-why/

Bill Phillips ("Phillips Curve") used flowing water to ...

2026-04-07T15:32:29Z

Bill Phillips ("Phillips Curve") used flowing water to model the economy in in 1949.

> according to his friend economist Richard Lipsey, "all the staff came out to humiliate this upstart idiot." Phillips showed how water flowed from the Treasury tank to chambers representing health and education (as the government spent money) and then got pumped back to the Treasury more or less rapidly as you pulled a lever to tweak the taxation rate. "It turned out after ten minutes that he knew more than everybody there, and they shut up," says Lipsey. They offered him a job at LSE.

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/04/07/g-s1-116575/how-bill-phillips-used-flowing-water-to-model-the-economy

#economics #modeling #simulation #macroeconomics

How much taxing that offshore wealth would help the bottom 50%? ...

2026-04-04T16:28:40Z

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How much taxing that offshore wealth would help the bottom 50%?

If $1.7 trillion grows 15% per year and is subject to an 80% capital gains tax, everyone in the
bottom 50% (4 billion) would get $51 a year. When the bottom 50% earns an average of just over
$4,000 a year, it would give them a less than 2 percent income boost.

(In reality, that tax money would go to the rich countries.)

Oxfam frames these questions in a way that gives wrong impressions. People read this and leave thinking that taxing offshore wealth would fix global poverty.

Just because I'm on their side politically does not mean that I have to accept their active mislead.

This is just the beginning. Current systems are the FORTRAN and ...

2026-03-30T16:16:46Z

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This is just the beginning.

Current systems are the FORTRAN and Pascal of proof systems; they are for building pyramids--imposing, breathtaking, static structures built by armies pushing heavy blocks into place.

What we need is for someone to invent the Lisp of proof systems. Something that helps individuals to think new thoughts.

There is good reason to be conditionally optimistic right now. If ...

2026-03-29T17:53:06Z

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There is good reason to be conditionally optimistic right now.

If the fraction of planets capable of supporting life that actually develop it at some point (f1 in the Drake Equation) is on the order of 0.01 or higher, then it is only a matter of time. Astronomers have already found almost 50 candidates that are both rocky and in the habitable zone (25 if we are being conservative)

With sample size of one we have no idea what f1 is. If nothing is found as our catalogues grow and observations begin to reach observational limits, there will be good reason to become pessimistic again.

With MS you are fighting whack-a-mole with these "Dark ...

2026-03-26T15:08:27Z

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With MS you are fighting whack-a-mole with these "Dark Patterns" and "Deceptive Designs". It's never one-and-done.

"New Feature" loophole: After you have disabled something, MS introduces new feature than enables them again. Alternatively whenever they offer quick "Finish Settings" they set options again if you press Accept instead of going trough them one by one. Also update settings for something not-related.

I don't see any immediate reason to believe that people in ...

2026-03-22T20:35:15Z

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I don't see any immediate reason to believe that people in Vietnam or Cambodia do not feel free when the question is "Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your freedom to choose what you do with your life?"

Both countries are experiencing rapid economic growth (6-7% annually), urbanization, and cultural
transformation. This suggests there may be opportunities available and freedom to choose what to do.

Freedom to choose when people have high survival values and come from poverty is probably not as much about political freedoms or freedom of speech as it is elsewhere.

Correlates: - real GDP per capita - social support in times of ...

2026-03-22T18:47:01Z

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Correlates:

- real GDP per capita
- social support in times of trouble (often the strongest predictor of resilience and "floor" happiness)
- healthy life expectancy
- freedom to make life choices
- generosity
- perceptions of corruption

If asked about happiness from the previous day, Latin American countries would report being quite content or happy. That's probably related to strong community.

If people perceive life is OK, there is enough income, health, security, agency, and no feelings of severe injustice, they seem to default into happiness.

According to Wikipedia there is at least one 30 kW American ...

2026-03-18T08:57:19Z

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According to Wikipedia there is at least one 30 kW American Fission reactor in the Earth orbit: SNAP-10A

Several American satellites with RTG's (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators) are still in the Earth orbit. Mainly from the Transit series. Including SNAP-9A types using Pu238 as power source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_systems_in_space

"In April 1964 a SNAP-9A failed to achieve orbit and disintegrated, dispersing roughly 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of plutonium-238 over all continents. Most plutonium fell in the southern hemisphere. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_for_Nuclear_Auxiliary_Power

SNAP-10A:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A

Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral? Viral capsid structure is a ...

2026-03-16T12:07:05Z

Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?
Viral capsid structure is a geometric packing problem under genetic constraints.
https://www.asimov.press/p/viral-capsids

Virus symmetry and T number
Caspar-Klug Theory
https://viralzone.expasy.org/8577

Structural puzzles in virology solved with an overarching icosahedral design principle
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12367-3

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

#biology #genetics #geometry #math

Currently for LLMs: If the model fits into memory and the context ...

2026-03-13T09:23:14Z

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Currently for LLMs: If the model fits into memory and the context length is less than 32k, it's more cost-effective to run in your own PC.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/116221057217529914

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Consumer GPUs can reliably replace cloud inference for most SME workloads, except latency-critical long-context RAG, where high-end GPUs remain essential.

Self-hosted inference achieves cost parity with commercial APIs within 1–4 months at moderate usage (30M tokens/day), with subsequent operation at 40–200× lower cost than budget-tier cloud models.

Private LLM Inference on Consumer Blackwell GPUs: A Practical Guide for Cost-Effective Local Deployment in SMEs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09527

"a systematic evaluation of NVIDIA's Blackwell consumer GPUs (RTX 5060 Ti, 5070 Ti, 5090) for production LLM inference, benchmarking four open-weight models"

"Consider dual-GPU configurations for consistent 32k+ workloads"

"Long-context benchmarks beyond 64k remain incomplete due to memory constraints."

#LLM #Nvidia #RTX #GPU #pc #cloud #datacenter

Consumer GPUs can reliably replace cloud inference for most SME ...

2026-03-13T09:03:16Z

Consumer GPUs can reliably replace cloud inference for most SME workloads, except latency-critical long-context RAG, where high-end GPUs remain essential.

Self-hosted inference achieves cost parity with commercial APIs within 1–4 months at moderate usage (30M tokens/day), with subsequent operation at 40–200× lower cost than budget-tier cloud models.

Private LLM Inference on Consumer Blackwell GPUs: A Practical Guide for Cost-Effective Local Deployment in SMEs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09527

"a systematic evaluation of NVIDIA's Blackwell consumer GPUs (RTX 5060 Ti, 5070 Ti, 5090) for production LLM inference, benchmarking four open-weight models"

"Consider dual-GPU configurations for consistent 32k+ workloads"

"Long-context benchmarks beyond 64k remain incomplete due to memory constraints."

#LLM #Nvidia #RTX #GPU #pc #cloud #datacenter

(If you have ever felt that there is something weird about IHL ...

2026-03-10T09:00:50Z

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(If you have ever felt that there is something weird about IHL and laws of war, continue reading)

Laws of war are dual use. IHL and the like do not exist just to reduce suffering, but to standardize and legitimize it in the public conscience so that war remains a tool of statecraft.

The 19th-century peace movements in the West were no joke. During the Hague Conventions, generals and legal minds determined what level of horror was militarily necessary and what level was economically or politically unsustainable. The conventions were the initiative of Tsar Nicholas II.. he and his ministers wanted to place limits on the lethal arms race because Russia was unable to compete.

The principle of superfluous injury, used to ban certain weapons, keeps a war something young men can volunteer into. In 1995, this principle was used to ban blinding laser weapons. A relatively easy method to permanently blind thousands of soldiers on the battlefield threatened the viability of war as a tool.

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out."
– Letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to James M. Calhoun, et al. (1864)

I agree. You must learn to use them productively. These systems ...

2026-03-03T22:06:32Z

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I agree. You must learn to use them productively. These systems are full of harms and misuse, but benefits and good uses.

I think the societal impact will get very bad before it get good. The quick buck comes from causing or ignoring harms.

https://infosec.exchange/@k3ym0/116161635202253362
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Claude’s Cycles Don Knuth, Stanford Computer Science Department ...

2026-03-03T17:22:58Z

Claude’s Cycles
Don Knuth, Stanford Computer Science Department
(28 February 2026; revised 02 March 2026)

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf

#computerScience #algorithms #AI

How was their economic organization because they were able to ...

2026-03-02T23:52:44Z

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How was their economic organization because they were able to build so big things. I know the Aztec empire had city states and 'kings'. Palace economy? Government takes most and then redistributes.

We Will Not Be Divided https://notdivided.org/ Google and OpenAI ...

2026-02-27T14:41:32Z

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We Will Not Be Divided
https://notdivided.org/

Google and OpenAI employees have released an open letter supporting Anthropic. #AI

Cognition and association-making don't require language. Hard ...

2026-02-23T00:16:08Z

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Cognition and association-making don't require language.

Hard objects have give sharp transient acoustic signatures like kiki sound. Soft objects have slower rise times like bouba sound.

Crystal-like image on the left associates with hard, leaf-like image on the right associates with soft.

You are probably already familiar with applied category theorist ...

2026-02-22T23:50:35Z

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You are probably already familiar with applied category theorist Joseph A. Goguen, UCSD? He wrote "What is a concept?" (2005) https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~goguen/pps/iccs05.pdf where he sketched a way to bring together cognitive, social, pragmatic and mathematical view of concepts and integrate them in same system.

There are other similar phenomena: Vowel pitch: High pitch/small ...

2026-02-22T18:26:58Z

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There are other similar phenomena:

Vowel pitch: High pitch/small size low pitch/large size. (large objects vibrate with lower frequency)

Taste: Roundness equals sweet or creamy; angularity equals sour, bitter, or salty.

Grapheme-color synesthesia

There may be deep neurological reasons for conceptual metaphors, and these are just the lowest level. There are cultural mappings or individual level mappings developed later in life, such as spatial metaphors where the future is in front and the past is behind.

As I said, I don' t think this is necessarily bad thing. ...

2026-02-13T17:54:42Z

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As I said, I don' t think this is necessarily bad thing.

Wikipedia shut down the experiment with short summaries angrily after a day, but users can get them through Google search snippets. They don't have to use Wikipedia proper.

I was talking primarily about readers, and I think the main point ...

2026-02-13T16:52:24Z

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I was talking primarily about readers, and I think the main point of the article was that it will become "irrelevant to younger generations of readers."

Jemielniak is a long-time Wikipedia activist and has served three ...

2026-02-13T10:53:27Z

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Jemielniak is a long-time Wikipedia activist and has served three terms on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. He is also a professor who studies this specific area, so I give him the benefit of the doubt.

The main point of the article, as I see it, is that Wikipedia has a structure geared toward older generations. Young people don't read long articles, and older generations tend to calcify the organization.

I agree with all of the above. This also explains why there are fewer young volunteers. You don't become a contributor if you don't read the articles, especially if the style feels outdated or inconvenient.

On the other hand, I don't see anything wrong with projects that gradually decline in popularity while sticking to what the organization knows how to do. Wikipedia is losing readers and is becoming a more 'academic' and elite institution for new generations, but it still provides a valuable service.

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A collaborative society should not mean that collaboration must happen within a single institution.

Wikipedia’s content is not bound to the organization itself; Gen Z and Gen Alpha can create their own organizations and short-form or conversational interfaces using Wikipedia as a source.

#wikipedia

Bush era prompted Naomi Wolf to write a book almost 20 years ago ...

2026-02-03T18:00:00Z

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Bush era prompted Naomi Wolf to write a book almost 20 years ago "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" (2007) where she describes how societies close in 10 steps based on what happened after 9/11 in America.

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.
2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place.
3. Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens.
4. Set up an internal surveillance system.
5. Infiltrate and harass citizens' groups.
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release.
7. Target key individuals.
8. Control the press.
9. Cast criticism as espionage and dissent as treason.
10. Subvert the rule of law.

Those 10 things happened after 9/11 and were never fully rejected, legally or institutionally. Now, they are occurring on a different scale. It feels like an iterative development, with the severity increasing at each step.

Maybe it's not the freeze but "they wouldn't release ...

2026-01-31T16:19:29Z

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Maybe it's not the freeze but "they wouldn't release the Epstein files until they are ready to attack Iran."

The day Trump attacked Venezuela was also the legal deadline for his DOJ to submit a written justification for all redactions in the Epstein case. Or was it the day after?

If I read your tone correctly, you think his remark is silly ...

2026-01-20T18:06:38Z

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If I read your tone correctly, you think his remark is silly because it is so obliviously true.

I think it’s silly because he makes unfounded argument , one thing is not related to other. (he has made this argument several times btw.)

The massive success and wide adoption of life-changing technology does not, in itself, mean there is no bubble, nor does it guarantee that productivity will jump as Nadella suggests.

CEOs tend to think in terms of microeconomics, which behaves like an open system: 'a penny earned is a penny saved.' In this scale we are thinking in macroeconomics, which has closed-system dynamics and feedback loops: penny saved is not a penny earned.

In general its seems, that no matter how much you innovate technologically, the contribution is just 0.5-2.0 percent to economic growth due to all feedback loops in the system. On average just around 1%.

WP page on Productivity Paradox is a good intro:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox

"You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics." - Robert Solow

I don't know what you are in real life, I must only respond ...

2026-01-18T14:49:36Z

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I don't know what you are in real life, I must only respond to what you wrote.

If you are what you say you are, maybe expresses it better and don't trivialize your own commitment.

(If you did read what I wrote, you understand that I'm not a pacifist.)

To me sounds like you are treating violence as entertainment, as ...

2026-01-18T14:33:38Z

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To me sounds like you are treating violence as entertainment, as an male power fantasy.

If you are going to discuss justified violence, do so with the sobriety and dignity that sacrifice and loss of life demands. To fantasize about executions without acknowledging the sacrifice is unserious and dehumanizing.

Huey P. Newton said: 'The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.'"

If you are not a man violence you glorify, coaxing the young and (usually unstable young men) to go first while you have no intention of joining is low.

While violent resistance may be justifiable in some ...

2026-01-17T17:24:07Z

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While violent resistance may be justifiable in some circumstances, internet posturing and the glorification of violence are both reprehensible and petty.

These points are taken directly from Mein Kampf. In the book, ...

2026-01-16T16:09:49Z

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These points are taken directly from Mein Kampf. In the book, Hitler demonstrates a strong understanding of propaganda.

It is almost certain that Hitler was reading Gustave Le Bon's The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895) while in prison writing Mein Kampf, as the parallels are undeniable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd:_A_Study_of_the_Popular_Mind

Although Hitler does not mention Le Bon by name, he mentions Lord Northcliffe (who was in charge of British propaganda) and openly admired British propaganda during WWI. Northcliffe was enemy to emulate.

Later, Hitler likely learned from Edward Bernays through Goebbels, who admired American advertising techniques.