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New comment by pickleRick243 in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

pickleRick243 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:15:48 +0000

I thought as much- my point is that as AI capabilities continue to expand, AI skeptics inadvertently and ironically end up belittling the humans they presumably hold in high esteem vs. the "cold machines" that aren't capable of true thought or creativity. When one says that solving a Millennium prize problem is not impressive, one is essentially demeaning practically all mathematicians and the field of mathematics itself.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

pickleRick243 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:41:58 +0000

I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but this is more an insult directed at mathematics, not openAI.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

pickleRick243 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:54:37 +0000

I think the point is that one of the biggest problems in the field has been solved and yet the excitement from this is nearly nil. Can you imagine if say breast cancer were cured under similar circumstances, or even worse (say OpenAI openly admitting it basically stole a bunch of other researcher's chatGPT conversations)? No one would care about these petty bickerings- or at least the headline "CURE FOR BREAST CANCER FOUND" would completely swamp anything else. This is embarrassing: it tells you almost no one- not even mathematicians themselves really care about their own problems- if they're not careful people will get the impression it's all a form of bean counting in a carefully constructed "safe space" where making sure people get the credit is more important than the work itself. That only happens in fields/problems where no one actually really cares about the output.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

pickleRick243 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:21:57 +0000

Honestly, the attitude of the math community is a bit cringe and increasingly I think some of the elite/mystical aura is fading. Rather than a rich fertile jungle where AI can barely chomp through a fraction of the luscious terrain, one gets the sense it's a desert and all the oases are running dry.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

pickleRick243 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:31:18 +0000

This article is so mid. The author clearly feels how mid he is and is desperate to justify that mid people are also smart, maybe even smarter in that superior nebulous way on ambiguous, ill-defined problems than those squares that can only solve those boring textbook well-defined problems.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

pickleRick243 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:38:10 +0000

So because you personally needed extra time to mature, you want to force a nationwide measure to force everyone to do the same? No one is stopping anyone from taking a year off before applying to college.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

pickleRick243 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:28:05 +0000

It's because it's risky and also requires actually being exceptional at something. So people choose the arduous brute force method because they know they can do it and it has a lower bound in terms of outcome.

In any case, this isn't unique to college admissions. The same story plays out in terms of career and all facets of life.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

pickleRick243 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:51:49 +0000

I notice your two comments straddle the contradiction "It's definitely not happening, but also it's terrible that it is."

New comment by pickleRick243 in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

pickleRick243 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:36:16 +0000

Yeah, even without the resets, chatgpt subscription currently goes quite a bit further than an equivalent anthropic plan. The main reason to have an anthropic plan is to get access to Fable 5 if you feel the quality of output makes it worth it.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

pickleRick243 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:42:02 +0000

Society is made up of families, i.e. children and parents. So yes of course it's up to society to solve these problems, tautologically. But that's not what you meant. Everywhere you wrote "society", you really meant "government". Might as well be honest about it.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

pickleRick243 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:54:36 +0000

"A detected mark provides a signal that content was processed by Claude, but is not fully conclusive."

"Lack of a detected mark doesn’t mean the content wasn’t AI-generated or processed."

New comment by pickleRick243 in "Discovery Loop"

pickleRick243 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:04:30 +0000

It's 90% to advance science via cheap labor and 10% to train a small group of future experts who will hire grad students to 90% advance science via cheap labor etc. ...

New comment by pickleRick243 in "Discovery Loop"

pickleRick243 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:58:29 +0000

Which part of it is highly technical or jargon loaded?

New comment by pickleRick243 in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

pickleRick243 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:51:10 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms

New comment by pickleRick243 in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

pickleRick243 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:11:08 +0000

"I am not confused. Because herein these forums, I predicted everything that was going to happen years ago."

I mean, lol.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "The fall of the theorem economy"

pickleRick243 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:21:58 +0000

It was also about 10x longer than it had to be because an LLM was heavily involved in its writing.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

pickleRick243 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:54:04 +0000

Either HN has become much more accepting of LLM-generated content or it can't tell the difference. Still, it was a decent skim. These models are fairly smart; I wouldn't say they are complete wastes of time. I find LLM articles are best read impressionistically. Don't take every sentence or even paragraph too seriously as no one, not even the machine put that much effort into it.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It"

pickleRick243 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:22:51 +0000

I actually find it funny the downvoters can't tell this was definitely LLM-assisted writing.

I'll admit it's more subtle than usual and the writer put some real work in (it wasn't just a one-shot prompt to "write tech article"). I don't even mind LLM-assisted writing if it has real content (like this article). It is a bit hypocritical though given the typical anti-AI tone.

Some sample "LLMisms", although the "AI-ness" is really at a more abstract stylistic level (eventually strong enough LLMs will eliminate all simple "LLMisms" so that only the more abstract identifiers will remain)

"a potent visual reminder of the imbalance shaping the modern EV economy."

"Xiaomi did not simply impress him. It appeared to unsettle him."

"Simultaneously, people like me have a “Neo plugged into the Matrix like a battery” sense that they and their credit cards are exactly where US industry icons, notably Elon Musk, prefer them to be."

"It’s a strange inversion: China increasingly resembles the competitive capitalist system Americans were taught to admire, while the US appears to embrace the controlled “kickback” economy we were told to fear. "

New comment by pickleRick243 in "The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It"

pickleRick243 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:33:02 +0000

Journalists used to decry the use of LLMs. Now they use it freely to write their own articles.

New comment by pickleRick243 in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

pickleRick243 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:33:30 +0000

It's not different- there's a line of research and reasoning where people who don't use LLM's regularly point out issues that have been known (and more or less solved) for more than a year now (which is an eternity in the LLM space).