Damn. That sucks.

If I were a skilled music person and I wanted to spend 3 minutes cheering someone up, I’d record myself playing “Here Comes the Sun” on my guitar, y’know?

A keynote talk suggested, “Do away with a physics midterm, ask students to converse with AI Isaac Newton.”

In the quotes, we find the useful suggestion that the program could be ELIZA-sized.

— Hi, AIsaac! Can you tell me about physics?

— Go away.

— What?

— You’re a moron and you’re TRYING TO STEAL MY IDEAS.

— Look, AIsaac, I don’t think—

— DID LEIBNIZ PUT YOU UP TO THIS?

—

— just GO AWAY I have MERCURY FUMES TO BREATHE.

There’s gold in them comments:

The fundamental tension here is between pre-Christian and post-Christian worldview. Are you allowed to be great, or do you have to apologize for your greatness? Justine refuses to apologize, which is the cardinal sin.

Ha ha no it’s because she went fash, you credulous dork

The first technologist was Prometheus who took fire from the gods and gave it away to humanity.

“This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

I need you to donate money to me, and I mean you, as in literally you. You couldn’t have read this far unless you are someone who legitimately cares

I have been helpless with giggles for five fuckin’ minutes.

More than anything else, the AI-rdős Problem cottage industry has damaged my trust in mathematicians. First of all, just how bad does a company have to be before you boycott their products? Just where is your line? Because the industry passed my line about seven thousand lines ago. Second, we know that in other fields, the output is shit, that people brainfuck themselves by counting the hits and forgetting the misses, that users de-skill themselves through slop dependence… What makes you so special? Piping the output through an automated theorem-prover, or any other hack to improve the reliability of the stochastic text extruder, can at best shift the probabilities.

The relevant part:

Technical assistance with setting up the code for the website was provided by ChatGPT and the logo was made by Midjourney.

You fuck cows in retrospect

Gestural Bayesianism!

I am the intersection of so many unliked groups whose minds I’ve come to understand. If you were to use bayesian inference to compute the probability that I’m a good person, it would underflow a double.

Hold on whilst I update towards the hypothesis that bayes for these people is just a syllable they emit when they talk about forming opinions.

It is now 404-ing; an archive copy is available here.

From the linked post:

Hacker News is my favorite place on the web, because it’s the last bastion of curiosity online.

Fuuuuck off

I need you to donate publicly under your real name and I want you to tell your friends how much money you gave me, since that’s the best way to show that you’re serious.

This improves dramatically if you read it in the voice of Wayne Newton’s televangelist character from License to Kill (1989).

I want to travel around the world and experience the cosmopolitan lifestyle my project is named after, using only private aviation, so that I won’t be molested or risk being detained each time I fly.

Grifting off the United States’ escalating institutional abuse of trans people is a special kind of ghoulish.

Sadly, Erdős never invented a problem based on counting the r’s in strawberry.

No, but it does seem important to point out before anyone starts trying to parse the exact words line-by-line or otherwise give more attention to the details than it deserves.

And anyone who describes admitting to AI use as “coming out of the AI closet” deserves to be publicly shamed.

The author of that piece outsources his thinking to the slop machine.

If anyone wants to read the discussion by the most pedantic nerds on Earth (complimentary), it starts here.

From elsewhere on fedi: https://fuckoffaimusic.com/

LessWrong, a group blog supposedly devoted to the science of living rationally, but in practice ground zero for some truly culty behavior. The Zizians arose from that community, for example.

Bye.

Don’t post slop.

I have fond memories of a Universal Soldier sequel because it was one of the weird movies we discovered randomly while away from home for academic-team tournaments.

Ah yes, Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979), The Island (2005) and probably at least one direct-to-DVD sequel to Universal Soldier (1992), who even keeps track of those

Timnit Gebru:

… an Anthropic cofounder was specifically thanked during the Pope’s speech where he said that they will "work together to “find the way for humanity, in this time of artificial intelligence.” Chris Olah wasn’t a random attendee. The Vatican had been cultivating these relationships for many years.