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Utah teapot @SkyeSharkie

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Utah teapot 🫖 @SkyeSharkie · 8h
just wait until you all hear about the NGO workers that do this...

i used to work in nonprofit and lemme tell you -- there is a disturbingly dark aspect of it which generates charities that exist not to solve the problems they are dealing with, but to perpetuate them in order to ensure that the people running said charities have lifetime employment and feel meaningful

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@redaction @redaction · 10h
It's strange that so many mathematicians seem to view themselves as artists

They feel threatened by the prospect of "solving math" because it would jeopardize their identit... [cut off]
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X thread: Utah teapot (@SkyeSharkie) draws an analogy between mathematicians' supposed defensiveness about AI 'solving math' (per a quoted post by @redaction) and nonprofit/NGO workers who, in her account of working in the sector, perpetuate the problems their charities address in order to preserve their own jobs and sense of meaning.

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Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi

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Danielle Fong 🐦☀️ reposted

Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi · 5h
Mathematicians are awesome people, I narrowly escaped being one. I love them dearly and I hope they take joy in all the cool new math and new opportunities, rather than despair. And obviously no one should be mean to them right now even if they need some copium.

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roon @tszzl · 7h
people are incredibly mean to mathematicians in this time. they really relish when an ai solves something and frame in a zero sum way w human mathematicians. i think it evens out some childhood era math trauma they have?
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X thread: Zvi Mowshowitz reposted by Danielle Fong, responding sympathetically to roon's (@tszzl) observation that people are 'incredibly mean' to mathematicians right now, gleefully framing AI math breakthroughs as zero-sum wins over human mathematicians, which roon speculates is people working out childhood math trauma.

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roon @tszzl

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roon @tszzl · 5h
people are incredibly mean to mathematicians in this time. they really relish when an ai solves something and frame in a zero sum way w human mathematicians. i think it evens out some childhood era math trauma they have?

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Mahaoo @mahaoo_ASI · 57m
Seeing some ego death happening among some folks on twitter following the new math results

We really should just speed run this as a society

everyone who thinks they are "safe" today will just prolong their false hope and increase the dissonance in a few years when it comes

It's just healthier to accept what is coming and understand that the next few[1] years will render every person on the planet obsolete in terms of their cognitive abilities

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[1] the precise number is unknown, but it's a small number compared to a human's lifespan, so better sooner rather then later just accept it
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Two tweets reacting to new AI math results: roon (@tszzl) criticizes people relishing AI beating human mathematicians as venting 'childhood math trauma'; Mahaoo (@mahaoo_ASI) argues society should 'speed run' accepting that everyone's cognitive abilities will soon be rendered obsolete by AI.

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