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New Scientist has a great article about AI rapidly being able to replace mathematicians and if that's a good a thing. Basically doing the work of proofs has a lot side benefits and what would it mean if AI does all the heavy lifting? Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history...

I’m definitely more comfortable with the Chinese government having my data than the american government and corporations.

I wasn’t… I said “ Technology has definitely limited the number of artists we have/need over time. Every family used to have someone that could play an instrument, it was an important part of filling time and providing entertainment. Recorded music and players basically wiped that out.” I...

I can't actually find any numbers on how many Americans identify as capitalists; seems most polls just ask if you like capitalism... not surprisingly the number of people especially among the youth that feel capitalism is working out is headed downwards. The only number I could actually find...

Well I'd say a large part of the western world would say they like capitalism and might even call themselves such (although most aren't). So I think what the majority of people think about something has some bearing on whether or not we should care. A lot of people subscribe to capitalism so...

It didn't wipe out musical "careers", but it cut down on the number of "amateur" musicians that used to be around to provide entertainment. If you wanted music/entertainment you hired or asked someone local. Once households got access to recorded music you didn't need people in the area to learn...

But they were creatives that were replaced/supplanted by technology. Or all the people that used to create art for homes. The flip side is that now we can have a few super rich super powerful creatives. I'm not sure if we are in a better place with creativity than we were 150 years ago. I'd...

I’m saying that why would you expect the same plan that didn’t work countless times before to suddenly work now? If creatives/knowledge based people just retry the same thing I don’t think they should expect better results. That’s not nihilism, that’s just hey that strategy was tried multiple...

Didn’t that come from mystique concrete, which came from telharmonium, which came from previous not electric organs?

Technology has definitely limited the number of artists we have/need over time. Every family used to have someone that could play an instrument, it was an important part of filling time and providing entertainment. Recorded music and players basically wiped that out. I’m confident we have less...

What was the last new genre of music that was not easily described as being a derivative of another pre-existing one? I’m honestly curious because I can think of any. We’ve had new genres but it’s always been fairly clear (or so I thought) about what they came from.

That's one view, but I'd say it's not the commonly held view of capitalists.

It's an interesting read, but it's no different than all the other industries that were destroyed before them. Look at the poor luddites still the butt of jokes and used as an attack, but their livelihoods really were destroyed, everything they feared came to pass. A really rough series of...

But moving fast and breaking things already happened when manufacturing was off shored with similar results. Tons lost work, good paying jobs went away, etc. We are now just seeing the same thing play out in another work sector (creative and knowledge based jobs). It's now like we haven't...

I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a great DM, but if someone sent me this out of the blue: "Create a low-level NPC that the party might meet, one who has no connections to any established lore or plot, but is merely interesting." I’d have questions… 1) what genre is this for? What kind of...

But you quoted me reply to someone who brought out two year old meme… I didn’t raise your post. But yes AI makes mistakes, it will probably always make mistakes, what’s the argument here? It can’t be useful in any way if it still makes mistakes?

People aren’t reliable either. Pointing out a flaw from two years ago giving the rate of advancement just comes off as tired. Are AI’s prefect, no. Should we dredge up a two year old meme as a reason not to use one today, also no. AI certainly has flaws, but minimizing the strides it has...

This seems to be a decent article. Basically it was a move away from basic prediction to chain of thought models. The “Strawberry R Counting” Problem in LLMs: Causes and Solutions - secwest.net - secure virtual engagement.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe generate a video of him saying it for extra points :)

They didn't hard code a fix for it. They found a better way to train the models and as a side effect it got way better at solving certain math questions.