You say that the times are bad. Be better yourselves, and the times will be better: You are the times. Technology must multiply human agency. DMs closed.
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If you have an obsessive streak, this is the greatest time to be working on frontier technology. The problems are genuinely monumentally difficult, which makes progress feel amazing. Besides, it's quiet on the frontier. None of the circus of mainstream AI.
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What is the relationship between money and knowledge?
If systems producing new, effective knowledge become plentiful, does that put evolutionary pressure on the technology of money?
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Many of the limitations of language models are, in fact, limitations of natural language. No scaling can overcome that.
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We're essentially looking for the ultimate theory of knowledge. It's as big an ambition as we can have as a species.
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Checks out on a cursory look but someone try some hard counterexamples.
Apparently,w e solved a 50-year-old open problem.
The geodesic flow of nonpositively curved surfaces is ergodic.
Joint work with Federico Rodriguez Hertz and Weisheng Wu.
arxiv.org/abs/2610.27697
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The answer is no, but the more interesting point is that Turing's theory of computing is only a theory of mechanism, and even after accounting for resource constraints, most computation remains beyond our reach. We don't understand the essence of computation.
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This is so obvious that the only people irrational enough not to get it are the rationalist EA types.
If you truly believe in superintelligence driven economic cybernetics you are genuinely not a very smart or serious person.
A few dozen Jane street quants could permadeath your central planning AI god overnight
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There has been only one person in history who counts as a world-historical technologist. I bet we will see a second in this century.
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This may have been the best reading experience of my life other than like the bible. I disagreed continually but also admired the depth and quality problem framing. Sweet.
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