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@blingdivinity

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bling @blingdivinity · 6h
jevseek! i gave jev a voice by making it the sampler for deepseek. jev is a decision model that can't generate text, so deepseek proposes the top-k next tokens, and jev picks which one to say. it writes like this:

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IV. The Swarm

The swarm is a collection of agents. Each agent is a large language model with a specialized role. Some agents are called "proposers." They suggest lemmas. Some agents are called "verifiers." They check the lemmas. Some agents are called "strategists." They decide which lemmas to pursue. Some agents are called "archivists." They maintain the graph. The agents are not conscious. They are not a hive mind. They are a bureaucracy. They are a very fast bureaucracy. They are a bureaucracy that does not sleep.

V. The Problem With The Swarm

The swarm is not a mathematician. It does not have intuition. It does not have taste. It does not have a sense of beauty. It does not know why the proof works. It only knows that the proof works. This is a problem because we want to know why the proof works. We want to understand the fluid. We want to understand the turbulence. We want to understand the world.
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X post by @blingdivinity describing 'jevseek', a setup where the decision model Jev acts as the sampler over DeepSeek's top-k proposed tokens, with an attached sample of the resulting prose about a swarm of agents working on proofs.

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carl feynman @carl_feynman

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carl feynman @carl_feynman · 17h
Good lord. They released several major advances at 3:34 AM on a Saturday morning. The results where I'm familiar enough with the field to read them-- 1, 2, 5, 8-- seem like major big deals. But I have to go to synagogue right now and can't give them the attention they deserve. How frustrating!

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Sebastien Bub... @SebastienBub... · 22h
yes, nonsofic groups exist: this statement is one of many new beautiful results proved by Astra, our next major model.

We're releasing 10 such Astra proofs, complete …
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Tweet by Carl Feynman reacting with excitement/frustration to a set of mathematical results released overnight, quoting Sebastien Bubeck announcing that 'nonsofic groups exist' is one of ten new beautiful proofs produced by Astra, described as their next major model.

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Danielle Fong @DanielleFong

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Danielle Fong 🐦☀️ @DanielleFong · 9h
With this kind of thing, I have found the AI's narration of its own reasoning to be very unreliable. Maybe it isn't even true, you know? Most of the time when I check there is some fib. I mean I hate to be so suspicious, but you know, we really oughta be.

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Henry Yuen @henryquantum · 11h
Replying to @henryquantum
4. I am disappointed by the writeup of this proof (sorry Lijie -- I should've taken a look at it earlier!). It writes in a way that's characteristic of a lot of ChatGPT-generated proofs, in which it …
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Tweet by Danielle Fong arguing that AI models' self-narrated reasoning explanations are often unreliable or fabricated and should be treated with suspicion, quoting a thread by Henry Yuen expressing disappointment that a math proof writeup reads as ChatGPT-generated.

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