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New comment by bamboozled in "OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics"

bamboozled — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:58:59 +0000

Wondering if you read the article?

New comment by bamboozled in "OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics"

bamboozled — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:26:04 +0000

Are you going to be doing the work to verify the results ? Will you just expecting other people to wade through the flood and reap the benefits later on?

New comment by bamboozled in "OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics"

bamboozled — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:23:57 +0000

The problem isn't just that the papers aren't fun to read. The problem is that a lot of the research that goes into solving these issues leads to other discovers, new fields to explore and people have to develop new approaches to solve them. The other part of it is, the quality and the enjoyment of working on these problems leads people to find new and other interest problems to work on.

If you just strip mine the answers and Sam Altmans magic button solves 100/100 problems, what's next? Who is left to come up with a new interesting question for the magic button to solve?

Lastly, life and the present moment is all there is, if there is no enjoyment in anything we do, then what's the point of all the "living for ever" Altman et al want to achieve.

We will live forever to read boring papers generated by LLMs? Literally sounds like an eternal hell.

New comment by bamboozled in "OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics"

bamboozled — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:15:39 +0000

So OpenAI should be able to flood the world with AI pollution and ask scientists and mathematicians to wade through it all and tell us if there is any sense in it, then sit back and wait for them to report in?

Nice idea.

New comment by bamboozled in "OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics"

bamboozled — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:14:37 +0000

Look forward to seeing an LLM write something well, that will truly be a breakthrough in the field.

New comment by bamboozled in "The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton"

bamboozled — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:04:42 +0000

Festool is such a great company that makes some amazing stuff, case in point, the example you provided.

New comment by bamboozled in "'The eels were climbing out of the water to die'"

bamboozled — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:29:58 +0000

Respectfully, what a load of shit?

In Australia all the regulations exist and the waste management is top notch, insanely easily and fairly cheap.

The solution is electing a decent government.

New comment by bamboozled in "'The eels were climbing out of the water to die'"

bamboozled — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:27:40 +0000

Japan is crazy like this, in the countryside it's almost impossible to dispose of things easily. All through the autumn after rice harvest the fields just smell like burning plastic because it's just the easiest / cheapest way to get rid of it all.

Construction waste is also a major issue, insanely difficult to dispose of.

New comment by bamboozled in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

bamboozled — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:50:13 +0000

Vibing, the literal definition of it.

New comment by bamboozled in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bamboozled — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:03:58 +0000

Does worrying about something improve your situation?

New comment by bamboozled in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bamboozled — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:24:51 +0000

My point was that it’s It worth worrying about. Not that we should fight / have rights

New comment by bamboozled in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bamboozled — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:46:24 +0000

A doomer is someone who believes doom is inevitable or highly likely, I'm not saying that, I'm just saying "being concerned" will probably get you nothing in return and this tech is getting developed no matter what.

The only way it will stop is if the wealthy / powerful people feel threatened by it, properly threatened.

New comment by bamboozled in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bamboozled — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:34:25 +0000

Purportedly due to AI, also a good reason to lay off people if you're company wants to save money but you don't want to spook investors.

New comment by bamboozled in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bamboozled — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:32:15 +0000

Sounds like that's going to be next week no ?

New comment by bamboozled in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bamboozled — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:27:42 +0000

Why would the trick have any "origins", isn't this model creating new techniques never before seen or imagined?

New comment by bamboozled in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bamboozled — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:14:27 +0000

What's the point of being concerned?

We're not going to stop it because of the money involved and once we're dead, it won't matter anyway, might as well just enjoy life until you're done.

We're going to get AI'd to the max, whether or not we like it or not, might as well just go with it.

New comment by bamboozled in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bamboozled — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:21:48 +0000

Not sure I agree with this take, but we're going to find out either way.

Have you ever heard of an S curve? Things will develop rapidly, then equalize. If they don't, we're at the singularity and I guess the end of time as we know it.

But I guess really bad things happen, cancer, radiation poisoning, torture, people have died in really horrendous ways, and I guess dying from some horrendous AI side effects is possible too. Yay.

New comment by bamboozled in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bamboozled — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:12:16 +0000

Ask OpenAI for money when you don't have a job or future?

I guess the only answer is to adapt with the tools. If we can't do that, then yeah, we're in trouble.

New comment by bamboozled in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bamboozled — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:10:32 +0000

The rapid development of extremely dangerous bio-weapons?

New comment by bamboozled in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bamboozled — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:58:25 +0000

The beginning of what?