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What happens when three objects enter the solar system from interstellar space? How would people react? After a few weeks (I've been quite bussy, sorry) I've finally finished spell-checking and aditing Last Time 'Round. Please check it out on #royalroad. #story #writing #writingcommunity #scifi

People often say math is hard. They're right, but that's only because *everything* is hard, once you look at it thoroughly enough #MathSky #SciSky

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

Conjunction —————— #space #art #noai #scifi #spaceart

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 3974: Pacing matters. A fast pace of storytelling throughout may sound exciting, but sometimes leaves the reader behind. On a journey, you need to give your passengers time to view the scenery.

A prime example of why AI 'leaders' are not who anyone should be listening to about AI, right and consciousness. It's not all wrong! In fact, it starts off very sensibly: "AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not train them to act as though they do". But then...hoo boy 1/n

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

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If you use Overleaf (by that I mean on overleaf.com and not a local installation like, e.g., we have at our research lab), check if “AI features” are enabled here www.overleaf.com/user/settings. They were for me (then again, I don’t use overleaf.com anymore). #AcademicSky #MathSky

Hi! I’m Singularity. I do space art and illustrations! My art has been used in videos with a combined reach of over 700,000 views If you ever need artwork for an article, video, thumbnail, or anything else, ask me about commissioning! I’ve also got a Patreon and Ko-fi where you can support me! ⬇️

Maybe scientists struggling to get a grant should just emphasise how their research will lead to the end of humanity. That ought to work #SciSky #MathSky #AcademicSky

A variety of evidence support the benefits of reading fiction on cognition and emotional functioning. The benefits exist across the lifespan. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

He’s part of the Rogan clique where they’re all both and talented at neither

New cool horror scifi setting just dropped

Zombie Star - WD J1330+6435 ——————————————— A Green White Dwarf #spaceart #art #noai

But the reason of this is obvious.

To be honest, I do not find Freudenthal's suspension theorem all that suspensefull #MathSky

Io and Jupiter #spaceart #noai

If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace.

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

Also, if they really cared about disabled people, they could make glasses that do all the other stuff but don’t record anything. It wouldn’t be that hard to just not have a record feature. But non-consensual recording is the primary selling point, even if some people use them more appropriately.

I have had a very sudden change of heart regarding LLM-usage in mathematics and believe we should rally all these models to finding the smallest non-solvable group of odd order #MathSky

…so, I conclude (this is me now, not the quote) we should just not accept these as part of the record in the first place.

It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>

Time to break out the Babbage paraphrase. I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such an assumption.

Oh wow, my favorite episode. Should've really included pics of the men in black though

OpenAI having to retract a few papers from their slop-deluge is honestly funny. Why didn’t they just only publish lean-verified papers? Honestly, discovering these mistakes almost makes it worth engaging with that monster 🧮

Mars and his consorts

Relativistic Speeds

“Tendex Line” A Black Hole and its Neutron Star perform a violent, eccentric dance, spiralling closer and closer together. In its death throws, the Neutron Star unleashes violent starquakes and bursts of radiation, the frantic last gasps before it vanishes into the event horizon.

Finally, animé par le sentiment de l’urgence, I wrote my own AI statement. Yes, it’s radical. Yes, it will probably make me even less popular among my colleagues, if anyone reads it at all. But I really believe we owe this to our students and our “junior” colleagues.

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

AI may be “good at math”, but will it ever experience the joy of being stuck on a commutative algebra exercise for an hour until you finally find the proof and realise it’s actually trivial? #MathSky

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future

back in my day intentionally fabricating data for use in scientific inquiry was sternly frowned upon

Whoever decided that getting Mathew Baynton with eyeliner play Dick Turpin was a good way to avoid romanticising him… well, let’s just say they didn’t think things through #HorribleHistories

I came up with a pretty neat family of functions related to different bases. They've got some nice pathological behavior if you ask me #MathSky #Maths #Mathematics

Knowledge is NOT politically neutral. The scientific method is a tool for deriving knowledge. So why then, are we telling the arbiters of the scientific method and developers of knowledge to be politically neutral? Are scientists supposed to forsake knowledge for politics sake?

I am far more terrified of AI acting as its designers intend than I am of it going rogue

Here I have a function that interested me today, so I wrote a program to plot it. The way it’s defined is it takes the sign expansion of a surreal number and feed it to a conditionally convergent series. For example, if your input is 1.5, that corresponds to (++-) -> 1/1 + 1/2 - 1/3.

Over on Twitter they are talking about solutions to the Fermi Paradox. Mine is that space is huge, we haven't been looking that long, and separating the hypothetical signatures of alien civilizations from random radio noise is significantly harder than most people think.