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My (largely unsubstantiated) take: Math ability isn't innate - nobody is born knowing how to prove the Sylow theorems. But math ability can be dramatically augmented by co-opting certain "lower" cognitive functions (spatial, linguistic, etc.) for which innate disparities exist.

Sam Altman is on 🔥🔥 > The company isn't for sale, neither is the mission > Grok isn’t open-source either. > We would like to work with China. > We should open-source more.

Sci-hub, Libgen, and Anna's Archive are services you can use to pirate books and scientific papers. The creators of these services are committed to opening up copyrighted works, despite legal risk. They're now advising the West to fix copyright law or lose the AI race.

I don't think many people understand what is happening in software development right now. I have a few friends with computer science degrees. Yesterday I asked them how they use AI. One said he uses ChatGPT “a little bit.” The others criticized AI and basically were in denial of

Can confirm. GPT 4.5 is hilarious. "Finish the text: > Be me > L3 at Meta / Google >"

There are plenty of bad incentives in academia, but by and large scientists and mathematicians are genuinely working to try to better understand the universe. The only long-term model we’ve found thus far to support such work is public funding.

se o cara falar de formiga dando passos pra explicar um conceito de análise eu imediatamente me retiro da sala de aula

me leaving the 18-24 age bracket

got told i come off "a little autistic" because i "act like i'm seeing everything in the world for the first time". it's actually called "youthful awe" and "childlike wonder". kill yourself

Cancel your dopamine fast. The landmark milkshake study is trending for showing no significant dopamine spike after eating—there's no 'dopamine hit.' But what's flying under the radar is even bigger: the study found no evidence of 'tolerance,' the theory that addiction leads to

how it started vs how it's going

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sabor novo de monster => nova personalidade

homens que encaram a louça pra lavar como um inimigo no campo de batalha

They promote Foucault. They promote Arendt. They promote Habermas. They promote the worst ideological trash produced in the 20th century. But they never promote Rudolf Carnap. Ask yourself why.

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My dog almost died yesterday, again, due to a lethal malignant cancer. I still haven't wrapped my mind around death; still cannot accept the finitude of our beings. Deep down, I believe that aging is merely an accident of nature, to be overcome in the following centuries.