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Instead of inventing a comforting dogma (we already know the truth) or embracing nihilism (there is no truth), a society should pursue the narrow path between them for a morally explorative world where views that perform better are more likely to spread
Nihilism, like any other moral theory, should be considered too premature to win the day.
An epistemically mature society must not succumb to moral aimlessness, but must instead be devoted to the moral pursuit of expanding human knowledge.
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I interviewed Greg Clark for @EconJWatch: Social mobility, his harshest critics, and Hemingway! econjwatch.org/podcast/gregoβ¦. @gclarkecon
spent the day to find out that a paper claiming to be the "System 2 mind for ChatGPT" is just a solver that has no relation with LLM whatsoever. Do not overstate your findings to ride the LLM popularity wave
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Capitalist innovation is a modern miracle that makes even the most precious commodities available to the masses β SO LONG AS IT IS PERMITTED TO FUNCTION.
Deregulate housing, healthcare and education, and capitalism will take care of the rest.
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Computer scientist Sara Hooker on underestimating difficulty:
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"Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves." - Alan Perlis
An incomprensibile ~160 pages proof generated by AI does not displace mathematicians on inventing new math, as well as an slope AI doesnβt displace engineers, unless merely making proofs or coding is all you do
10 remarks on AI and math that can be true all at once:
1. The recent progress is stunning and exciting.
2. The Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis is arguably Fields-medal level.
3. Mathematics is being transformed and there is no way back.
4. OpenAI doesn't give a fuck about the future of mathematics.
5. Half-baked unreadable preprints claiming major results can effectively stall mathematical progress.
6. Some mathematicians are responding with naive, overly defensive comments.
7. The social-media wankers framing this as "OpenAI tramples gatekeeping" have no experience of mathematical research.
8. The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves.
9. Mathematics is a critical infrastructure of human cognition. The human need for understanding isn't obsolete and it can't be offloaded to machines.
10. We haven't "solved" mathematics and we won't get there before the Sun burns out.
Green line: student performance with smartphone ban. Blue line without ban. Banning smartphone at university is irrelevant
Adaptation or extinction terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/β¦
βI was just very depressed about that,β he said. βThat doesnβt feel inspiring to me. β¦ It didnβt have to be this way.ββ¦
Welcome mathematicians to the new normal. Donβt worry, youβre not the first. Adapt and radically change rewards in your domain, like everyone else does
Over the past few months, Quantaβs math editor Jordana Cepelewiz has heard from lots of mathematicians, students and senior researchers alike, about the upheaval that AI has wrought. The situation is tense. Read her column: quantamagazine.org/is-ai-theβ¦
Programming System for AI-Assisted Software Development is the research project for my 2025 master thesis. It is still valid on its fundamental assumptions: accidental complexity kills the programming experience and drags less capable open-source LLMs gfrison.com/master-thesis
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Optogenetics - activating specific neurons using light-sensitive proteins - wins the Nobel!
Here's a great demonstration:
Shining a light on this mouse activates the very specific subset of neurons that makes it shake (like a wet dog) to dry off.
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel βfor their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.β
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Small bird, fast wings, Kolibri is here.
78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe.
Now the weights are yours. Run it on your own hardware, under Apache 2.0.
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If Musk hadn't bought Twitter, France's riots would be "mostly peaceful protests".
Finally a decent photo album gfrison.com/photos/
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Celebrating 114 years of the legendary Italian filmmaker, Michelangelo Antonioni- one of those very few filmmakers whose movies people either completely hate or unconditionally love. I belong to the latter category. I just hope more people join the club. Sadly, Orson Welles & Ingmar Bergman wouldn't approve of this.