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New comment by ordinaryatom in "Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?"

ordinaryatom — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:28:09 +0000

If certain inventions become very easy for AI models to discover, i.e. the discovery bound to happen, then in these areas it becomes a game of land grab.

New comment by ordinaryatom in "Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes"

ordinaryatom — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:31:37 +0000

Evolution does not care about morality, but it did create the faculty of morality on humans

New comment by ordinaryatom in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

ordinaryatom — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:56:45 +0000

I am not sure, self-play with LLMs self generated synthetic data is becoming a trendy topic in LLMs research.

New comment by ordinaryatom in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

ordinaryatom — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:25:42 +0000

You are right that LLM and alphazero are different models, but given that alphazero demonstrated having the ability to bootstrap creations, we can't easily rule out LLM also has this ability?

New comment by ordinaryatom in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

ordinaryatom — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:15:46 +0000

> If it could truly think it would be able to bootstrap creations from basic principles like we do, but it really can't.

alphazero?