Blueberry
10hr ago
Someone on hacker news had for the last 20 years a specific problem in graph theory (Barnette's conjecture) and tried to understand the proof (and tried to translate it for non-math people) and was astonished that it used multiple esoteric "symbolic tricks borrowed from theoretical physics". He used Anthropics Fable to understand the OpenAI proof and first thought Fable was hallucinating techno-babble:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988654
Forgive me for posting LLM output but I find this darkly hilarious:
"it's a matrix-tree cancellation wearing Kasteleyn's planar signs, run as a Witten index over Penrose-lineage states, evaluated as a fugacity-zero loop gas in an infinitesimal magnetic field — and the reason it reads like physics is that every one of those tools was built for partition functions"
I thought this was pure slop when I read it but there are some clear analogues in these other areas of physics, really neat computational tricks, and a very interesting paper by Penrose calculating Tait colorings I never knew about previously
So at least this proof (and at least to some guy on hn) this proof were not from the LLM digesting prior art papers on this problem or general graph theory, but from "the entire corpus of neat computational tricks that physicists derived to make their equations spit out something other than zero or infinity". Which makes it very unlikely a human could have thought of it, as few graph theorists are familiar with infinitesimal magnetic fields (and vice versa).
Blueberry
1d ago
I just found this place on an idle lurk through /r/slatestarcodex. As far as I can tell, it's a surviving remnant of the more iconoclastic elements of the rationalist/postrat/lesswrong sphere
There is also the anagram offshoot datasecretslox:
https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php
It looms more oldschool in the bboard aesthetic (which I like), but is a bit wider on topics.
Blueberry
1d ago
Based on the multiple text messages
Is there a neutral source giving an overview? News articles only summarize it and social media is piece by piece.
Blueberry
1d ago
Canada, intentionally exclude those as exculpatory evidence
I wouldn't have guessed that. With what explanation? Was there a recent case around that?
Blueberry
9d ago
For some reason no 8 hours, they will deorbit early, so only another 30 minutes from now to coast in space.
Blueberry
13d ago
I don't have strong opinions. But people think Tommy Robinson is a fascist, so DHH going on his march is guilty too.
https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/
DHH also made a post equating Roma with growing wolve population in Denmark.
"When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them."
Blueberry
13d ago
Marching with Tommy Robinson:
https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
Against DHH:
https://paulbjensen.com/blog/2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-london/
Blueberry
13d ago
Metafilter is still kicking around? I googled the thread and was surprised about the many maskers still around. Though one notices:
Strangely, several of the very covid-cautious places I've frequented relaxed their mask policy because the vibe was that the most assiduous maskers were white middle class people and that requiring masks for all was alienating others.
Blueberry
14d ago
At current (though quite high) market value that would be around $20 million per Greenlander.
Blueberry
15d ago
Hm. You could argue a similar version about zoonosis.
Not only should the world force China with sanctions to forbid wet markets, the west should move away from poultry to prevent the next bird flu dangerous to humans. In fact to lower (eliminate!) risk of zoonosis we must embrace veganism! Instead I encounter that only as a minor talking point in vegan activism (if at all).
It is true though:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8319869/
The production, distribution and consumption of animal-based products (such as meat, dairy and eggs) is a major risk for zoonotic transmission. Therefore, our perspective is that promoting sustainability, particularly by reducing unsustainable animal-based consumption, must be part of the broader response to reduce the risk of future pandemics.
Instead people shrug. Eh, nothing to be done by Asians eating crazy animals. And vegans much rather want to talk about other stuff like ethics.
Blueberry
21d ago
The house is literally on Zillow.
I wonder what the discount (premium?) on a murder house is.
But yes, the window to the lawn was her way for suicide? As a nurse she surely could have gotten something to inject or why not some old fashioned hanging.
Blueberry
21d ago
Suppose demons exist. What is the catholic or orthodox stand regarding legal/moral responsibility for actions done when possessed by a demon? (Of course I am asking because of the current very prominent case of a mother being commanded by a voice for 18 minutes to murder, but the question can be generalized)
Blueberry
29d ago
Btw he has a youtube channel:
Reasoning from fiction about the real world is a fallacy (imaginary map vs real territory?), and science fiction says more about the time it was created as the depicted future. Old scifi imagined any household chores done by robots, but they couldn't imagine that the washing machine freed women from being housewives and the coming waves of feminism. In 60s StarTrek they couldn't get female commanding officers as women in the test viewership hated the bossy actress, in 90s Star Trek there were no gay people (not to mention transgender), and Picard was bald. In a real future with Star Trek like tech everyone will have fantastic hair and some otherkin/wolfkin will use transporter tech to degenerate themselves to furry-hybrids. And the holodeck itself is a can of worms...
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