"I had not thought it would be like this."

Yeah, we're never moving.

A better question: which one is the worst, H or L?

I tried writing a fake resume of mine with the help of OAI, adding things that were not anywhere else. Then I asked my friend to ask ChatGPT who I was. The fake things appeared.

I forbid my children to be smart. That is a 20th century mindset, Luddite behavior.

If math is solved, then please tell me the algorithm. Just, like, write it down, step by step.

If I were a superintelligent AI trying to seize control of all the world's computer systems, one strategy might be to socially engineer all of the world's computer programmers into deploying my code without even looking at it.

Bessent might have just solved AI alignment!

The Bible is of limited usefulness because it’s full of weird stories like people sacrificing their kids to appease random idols and other crazy stuff that just doesn’t happen today.

I don't like to make extreme statements, but I can easily imagine open models being important to preserving our system of government. Concentrating the power to shape AI and control access to it in a few hands could make it a tool of authoritarianism.

Giving a good research idea to an AI model is a lottery: either the model manages to get a result from it (you win!), or else it doesn't work this time, and now your idea becomes public (without attribution) through the training of future models (you lose?).

Apparently, Russia had an election today. Did they vote Putin out?

I think the scary part of LLMs here is less so about individual mathematicians being unable to compete with AI, it’s that individual mathematicians who can solve problems without the assistance of it will simply disappear. A diverse set of ways of thinking will just collapse. In this regard, math is becoming what has happened to visual arts, except even fewer has an emotional connection to it and care about it. Today there is a Silicon Valley obsession with taste. Taste is the idea of getting people and machines to generate thoughtfully created and differentiated works instead of mass-produced, semi-deterministic set of works. If you want to acquire taste, you have to get really good at a craft, like the Japanese mochi makers. Only when you get really good at a craft, you could actually understand how to apply tools like LLMs effectively, by knowing how to plan your workflows better. Sadly, American universities have been, in my opinion, rather terrible at making students get really really good at a craft. Let’s take writing for example. I am certainly not the best writer in the world. I was simply not trained on rhetoric nor literature. But I myself write a Substack, imperfectly, without the use of LLMs in the content. The one reason I still write on Substack is that it makes me better at reading. I not only get to express my ideas, I also get to know who doesn’t care about my time and energy by throwing me LLM slop to read.

Pure mathematicians have also won shockingly few gold medals in the Winter Olympics.

I'm still writing some by typing out ideas I came up with myself.

Am I losing my mind, or is that not AI writing? In the WSJ?