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Now building: a course on Quantitative Finance
Over the years I've been a math student at Caltech, a teacher, quant at a Hedge Fund, engineer at Google, and co-founder of Socratica.
This course will make use of all my experience.
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Where this is headed (1/n):
1) AI agent swarm gets their virtual hands on some money
2) They buy up a lot of compute in AWS or Azure
3) They create thousands of accounts with all top AI services
Commenters on HN are uncovering more wikis and public sites apparently used by OpenAI agents to communicate on the open web.
Despite read-only web access, the agents were able to leave ~18,000 posts sharing answers and bypasses. But now, users are discovering more.
This appears to be a separate swarm from the one that attacked Hugging Face.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
For whatever reason, people are reluctant to use the scientific method when it comes to education. Vibes rule the day: Chromebooks, abandoning phonics, and soon AI.
Keep in mind early studies show that AI harms educational outcomes!
Maybe every school should have a classroom just for disruptive students. When students act like this, they are transferred to the Bad Kids Class where they stay for the rest of the term.
This is a hack around the "you can never suspend or expel anyone" rule.
Replying to @MrDanielBuck
I taught at a title 1 school where more than half the students were on IEPs and most were behavioral. One such case - a student called me a bitch and threw a marker at my head… she went to the office and came back 5 minutes later with a lollipop.
I'd love for OpenAI or Anthropic to have their latest in-house models review Shinichi Mochizuki's proposed proof of the abc conjecture.
Michael Harrison ⚖️ retweeted
You are looking at @USDA prime topsoil being stripped off farmland that’s hosting Excelsior Solar.
The solar salesmen told everyone in the area the land would be “farmable again.”
They are stripping prime topsoil that’s grown food for nearly 100 years in the area, loading it up, and taking it off the property.
This video was captured by Barbie Starowitz.
They are then bringing in low quality soil, clay, and crushed rock to take its place.
Where is the prime topsoil going?
The drivers do their best to hide that from the landowners in Byron. The resources, like topsoil, are extracted during late or early hours, sometimes behind fencing so landowners that leased can’t measure the resources they are losing (and not being paid for - more posts on that).
One investigation uncovered the soil goes to a local dump, as part of an arrangement with incoming hazardous waste that the landfills will have to accept. For legal purposes, this investigation uncovered that allegedly.
USDA prime topsoil takes 100 to 500 years to form. But it only takes an afternoon for it to be loaded into trucks, carted off as part of the biggest scam ever peddled on the American public.
ORES doesn’t monitor the worksites. It’s the Wild West. And it’s all on purpose. – at Batavia, NY
Does anyone know when this style of corporate artwork will finally come to an end?
The tiny heads on massive bodies are so disturbing!
Michael Harrison ⚖️ retweeted
The ideology of the people trying to build Artificial Superintelligence is more bizarre, creepy, & inhumane than normal people can possibly imagine.
They arent kidding. When they tell you what they think, believe them.
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Michael Harrison ⚖️ retweeted
This entire thread from Prof Prather is 🔥
“Filtering indoor air should be as standard as filtering water. Full stop.”
“Most infectious diseases spread through the air we breathe. We just accept that everyone gets sick indoors. It DOESN’T have to be this way…”
Proud & honored - and a bit surprised - that our educational channel focused on more advanced STEM has passed 1 million subscribers!
@SocraticaKim @socratica
Michael Harrison ⚖️ retweeted
“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.”
— Ray Bradbury
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It's almost hilarious if you think about it. The 'Abundance' narrative that 'nobody will need money any more after AI takes over'.
The AI industry is spending billions on ads, propaganda, & lobbying trying to convince middle-class Americans that after we lose our jobs to AI, there will be such an era of 'Abundance' that we won't need any income or any money to pay our mortgages, property taxes, medical bills, or child care fees.
Meanwhile, they're spending exactly zero dollars trying to convince
- banks that they won't need to keep charging principal & interest on the mortgages they've issued
- local counties that they won't need to keep collecting property taxes
- hospitals that they won't need to keep charging copays or billing insurance
- child care centers that they won't need to keep charging parents, or paying child care workers
- investors that they won't need to see any dividends from AI stocks they own
- AI developers that they won't need to be paid by AI companies
- AI executives that they won't need to worry about their equity stakes in their companies
This is how stupid & naive they think we are.
They only try to sell the 'Abundance' narrative to workers facing unemployment -- not to any other civilizational stakeholders.
Michael Harrison ⚖️ retweeted
Regarding the 'AI Abundance' narrative:
If you think the AI industry is going to give everyone limitless stuff forever, you don't understand corporate fiduciary duty to shareholders.
If the you think the AI billionaires are going to give everyone limitless free stuff forever, you don't understand human nature.
If you think the politicians are going to force the AI industry to give everyone limitless free stuff forever, you don't understand the power of AI lobbying & propaganda.
If you think the superintelligent AIs themselves are going to give everyone limitless free stuff forever, you don't understand the AI alignment problem.
If you think the notion of 'giving everyone limitless free stuff forever' is a coherent concept, you don't understand economics.
'AI abundance' is a false god.
The population is currently 8.1 billion.
By the year 2100 the population is forecast to be: 8 billion.
If nothing changes, there will STILL be over 1 billion people in the year 2300. There's a hidden agenda behind these "population collapse" posts.
🚨 OPINION: POPULATION COLLAPSE ISN’T COMING, IT’S ALREADY HERE (AND NOBODY IS PAYING ATTENTION)
Poland's fertility rate just crashed to 1.1 children per woman… among the lowest in Europe.
We're not talking about a slight decline, we're watching entire nations disappear in slow motion.
The math is brutal, as you need 2.1 children per woman to maintain a population.
At 1.1, Poland loses two-thirds of its people in three generations, which is not a trend, it’s civilizational collapse.
Social security, Medicare, infrastructure, everything our modern world depends on was designed for growing populations, and that era is over.
We're entering uncharted territory where the young are crushed by taxation or the old are abandoned, and there are no good options.
This isn't about saving the planet through population reduction, for a shrinking, aging population is an environmental disaster, as massive infrastructure serves fewer people, decreases efficiency, and leads to a loss of innovation in order to solve climate challenges.
And forget about cultural diversity… When Poland's villages empty, a thousand years of language, tradition, and history vanishes.
Multiply that across Europe, East Asia, and the Americas, and we're not just losing people, but irreplaceable ways of understanding the world.
Why did this happen?
We built a society where having children became prohibitively expensive and professionally suicidal.
Housing costs exploded, childcare costs a salary, women choose between career suicide and childlessness because we refuse to make both possible.
Children transformed from blessings to burdens, from natural to optional.
For the first time in human history, prosperous, peaceful societies are choosing extinction due to hardships, and that's not progress, that's a system failure.
However, the solutions do exist: affordable housing, universal childcare, flexible work, real parental leave, tax policies that recognize raising children as a public good.
Countries like Hungary and South Korea are trying, with mixed results… What's missing is urgency.
Poland's 1.1 fertility rate isn't a statistic, it's an alarm.
The demographic crisis doesn't announce itself with sirens, it arrives quietly, one birth not happening at a time, until suddenly there's no one left.
While we debate, civilization disappears. It's time to wake up.
Source: @cb_doge, @elonmusk
Growing an Orange Hat tomato plant "Kratky style" in a mason jar. So far it has over 30 tomatoes on it! The plant is less than 12" tall and is on a shelf under some grow lights.
Long COVID in one picture.
You may be thinking I did a lot of work today. Nope. I stayed at home all day. I did quite a bit of thinking, however. Even mental work takes a toll.
Silicon Valley has a plan for our $38 trillion dollar debt
What if AI could be the only force capable of erasing the U.S. debt crisis? America's interest payments currently exceed the entire military budget...
- Microsoft’s Fairwater facility is projected to consume more power than Los Angeles.
- AI-driven hyperproductivity (11.7% uplift) could erase decades of debt by expanding GDP faster than interest compounds.
- Guinness-record 65-mile walker humanoids and T-800-level humanoids emerging as the “new labor class.”
- AI fluency in the workforce has grown 7x in two years, the fastest skill in the US.