Give people a survey, to identify movies, books, etc. they like. Then summarize all this into a visual symbol. Then you can print this on a t-shirt on a laptop sticker, etc. Humans get the general areas you like but it's machine readable, too - take a photo and you get all the details that he person chose to share!

Thoughts?

* A weightlifter was only awarded a laureate if he were able to lift a heavy stone (have no idea what they were lifting, for illustrative purposes only :-)

* Along comes Archimedes who invents what we would call an exoskeleton. Now any regular guy can lift twice as much as last year’s athlete.

* What to do? You can cancel the Olympiads, but they are actually useful as training, motivation, etc So now you have to give the prize on other factors, eg how well he can lift, has he opened a gym in the city, etc

BTW, physics and bio are not exempt, so those researchers better read and try to stay ahead.

So while Picasso is perhaps right to say “We have invented nothing “ as quoted in the article when he means art is as old as humans, the realization that something is art, is perhaps invented afterwards.

I also reject the two kinds of art thesis that’s proposed here:

“It follows that there must also be two kinds of art – similarly different and yet, somehow, complementary. The first is what I call artifice: art conceived so as to confirm, reinforce and extend the empire of facts in which we ordinarily live. … Examples come readily to mind: propaganda, pornography and advertising; sentimental, moralistic or didactic art”

Many current artists would lump, say, paintings by Old Masters into this category. Facing the statue of David past month in Florence, it was eye opening how much such a classic statue of a human can move people!

The fascinating this is that the LLM is not acting as a tool here AFAIk, but very much like a colleague.

I have no knowledge of the domain and have only PhD EE level math knowledge, so maybe my bar is too low.

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>The second stage of the grant termination process began on March 12, 2025, when Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh – identified in the record as members of DOGE’s “Small Agencies Team” – met with NEH leadership, including McDonald and Wolfson… Prior to joining the Trump Administration, neither Fox nor Cavanaugh had any experience in government, public grant administration, private grant administration, or reviewing humanities projects for scholarly merit… In fact, as both were in their twenties, they did not have much experience in anything at all – certainly not in anything remotely related to the humanities.

First player should always win, yet a winning strategy is not known.

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That means in a generation there are ~ 10k such people in the world. Think about connecting them or nurturing them with AI companions.

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