This article is very good, by the way, highly recommended.
Iran demonstrates that a latent nuclear program is dangerous enough to invite preventive war while remaining insufficient to deter it.
“Strangely for a book so concerned with wealth and power, GERONTOCRACY IN AMERICA doesn’t have much to say about class. Is the problem with wealthy old people that they’re old or that they’re wealthy?”
New from James G. Chappel:
“Strangely for a book so concerned with wealth and power, GERONTOCRACY IN AMERICA doesn’t have much to say about class. Is the problem with wealthy old people that they’re old or that they’re wealthy?”
New from James G. Chappel:
“With the rise of generative AI, we are now seeing regular predictions that human mathematical power is at last on the verge of being outstripped, whether or not anyone likes it.”
Mathematician Michael Harris on the race to automate mathematics, and the fate of human understanding in the age of AI:
“Understanding is a lively topic for philosophers, but not for the tech industry. In their race to the ultimate prize of AGI, Silicon Valley’s main players instead see the mechanization of reasoning as the main hurdle.”
“Startups like Axiom promise, ‘We stand at the threshold of a mathematical renaissance.’ The collective market capitalization of such ventures would suffice to fund 200 math PhDs—the number lost this year in the United States due to cuts to graduate programs—every year for the next 500 years.”
“Startups like Axiom promise, ‘We stand at the threshold of a mathematical renaissance.’ The collective market capitalization of such ventures would suffice to fund 200 math PhDs—the number lost this year in the United States due to cuts to graduate programs—every year for the next 500 years.”
The ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is a prelude to an emerging, precarious realignment.
Older people are not holding everyone else back. A more just society requires a different fight.
By recruiting localities to be “the foot soldiers of immigration law enforcement,” the federal government “enabled a diffusion of political consequences and further obscured who held power over immigration,” @briannanofil.bsky.social writes. The result fostered “a form of racialized social control.”
'The collective market capitalization of such ventures would suffice to fund 200 math PhDs—the number lost this year in the United States due to cuts to graduate programs—every year for the next 500 years.'
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The Trump administration has enlisted hundreds of state and local law enforcement agencies in its mass deportation campaign by deputizing their officers as immigration agents, extending ICE’s reach far beyond where the agency typically operates.
The Trump administration has enlisted hundreds of state and local law enforcement agencies to support its mass deportation campaign.
This is a good read from the outspoken Michael Harris. AI firms obviously see math problems as just a strip-mining quest for trophies, praise, and riches. This is why they address every other use case as well. They misunderstand the human endeavor.
“With the rise of generative AI, we are now seeing regular predictions that human mathematical power is at last on the verge of being outstripped, whether or not anyone likes it.”
Mathematician Michael Harris on the race to automate mathematics, and the fate of human understanding in the age of AI:
www.bostonreview.net
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
