Rian Kormos

@Kekius_Sage Watching a crew of humanoid robots build another humanoid robot.

What will be the “oh shit” moment for people who still think AI is just hype?

@sailaunderscore Your husband’s actual receptionist in 10 years:

They’re making blackpills for women now

@the_smart_ape How did your pipeline handle his prediction that Trump would name Nikki Haley as his running mate? Maybe it was the correct game-theoretic move, but Jiang underestimated Trump's pettiness and obsession with personal loyalty. Haley was out as soon as she ran in the 2024 primary.

@Kekius_Sage Trying to better understand the universe, even if such understanding can be discovered and taught to us by AI, is reason enough to wake up every morning. There’s always something new to learn about our world!

What if universal basic income becomes real, and the hardest job left is figuring out why you wake up?

@jessi_cata Probability theory remains extremely valuable.

10 years ago I thought the math that was important to get good at was logic and probability theory. Now I suspect it's linear algebra and category theory.

@matthewschmitz Perhaps this is a more pronounced problem in the humanities. I served on the admissions committee for the biophysics Ph.D. program at UCSF, which adheres to Proposition 209 in all admissions decisions and does not systematically exclude white men or any other demographic.

“The one exception I found to the general exclusion of white males had begun life as a female.” Harvard professor James Hankins explains why he’s leaving: compactmag.com/article/why-im…

@DaveShapi Looking forward to reading it! I’m curious how you balance the dueling priorities of writing a timely work and a work that stands the test of time. When do you think is the best time to release to be as helpful as possible to the contemporary reader?

THE GREAT DECOUPLING is now over 130,000 words 🤪 I realized the previous draft was far too brief on some very important concepts and was going to leave people with more questions than answers. I'm erring on the side of completeness just because that's what it will take to thoroughly bash open the Overton window and demonstrate, beyond the shadow of doubt, that this is possible. Not only possible, but immanently feasible, and highly desirable even if you don't believe AI and robotics will nuke all jobs.

@ZyMazza The position-momentum uncertainty principle, and its connection to the Fourier transform, is a special case of a more general principle. ħ shows up in the position-momentum case because iħ is the correction you need to switch (i.e. commute) the position and momentum operators.

@ZyMazza I first learned the uncertainty principle from Leonard Susskind’s indispensable lectures: theoreticalminimum.com/courses/quantu… Briefly, self-adjoint linear operators represent observable quantities in QM, and if the operators don’t commute, you can’t measure both quantities simultaneously.

I thought the whole thing with Heisenberg uncertainty was a statement about *measurement* but if I’m understanding what I’m being told about the EPR paradox correctly, they’re actually saying it’s impossible for a particle to have a definite momentum and position simultaneously?

@mathelirium I learned multivariable calculus from that guy. A fantastic mathematician and expositor alike, which is a rare combination.

In 1996, James Sethian showed something almost unfair...you can find shortest routes through a messy world by letting a wave expand once...no trial paths, no search beams, just one growing front. Here’s how: we solve for an arrival-time field T(x,y) so that T literally means how long the wave needs to reach this point. The rule is ||∇ T|| = 1/F, where the medium is fast (F large) the front sprints, where it’s slow it trudges, and obstacles are speed ≈ 0, so the front wraps around them because that’s the only way forward. Then comes the satisfying part: once T exists, a path doesn’t need to search at all...drop a bead anywhere and let it follow ẋ ∝ -∇ T, it slides downhill on the time landscape and traces a globally fastest route back to the source. This “wave = optimal control” viewpoint is exactly what Tsitsiklis (1995) made precise from the Hamilton-Jacobi side...compute the value/arrival-time function and the optimal trajectories fall out from it. #FastMarching #EikonalEquation

Several of my friends have been inside of me, what’s the big deal

@alz_zyd_ There aren’t a lot of good options for such people if they have a low burnout threshold or a lack of appetite for the grind. Either academia or startups often require 60-80+ hours to succeed. For some, living a quiet life is preferable.

There are a surprising number of "hermit savants", incredibly talented people who just for one reason or another aren't playing in the big leagues. Back luck; awkward personalities; preference for the quiet life; and the like

@BoringBiz_ I can supply a counterexample. One of the smartest people I know (valedictorian of my high school class, 36 ACT, 240 PSAT, graduated in three years from Berkeley with a B.S. in chemistry and a 3.9 GPA) just finished their Ph.D. and immediately got hired as a research scientist.

@bowtiedroadrun @rev_cap “A Generation of Sociopaths” by Bruce Cannon Gibney is a great place to start. It was written in 2017, but most of the laws that entrenched Boomer economic advantages were in place by then.

@rev_cap Any recommendations on where to get the basic facts? Like a book?

@davidpattersonx What are your thoughts on how we can roll out hundreds of millions of humanoid robots in five years? Moving and arranging that many atoms is a hard problem that intelligence alone might not be able to significantly accelerate faster than fifteen to twenty years from now.

7 key points in the near future: By the end of 2026 - We will reach the human-to-AI transition (AGI) point. AI will be capable of replacing full jobs. 2027 - We will need a UEI (Universal Equal Income) to replace incomes, not a UBI (Universal Basic Income). UEI payments will maintain demand by providing full incomes. A UBI would collapse the economy. 2029 - AI will reach the maximum limit of intelligence (gMax) and maximum available knowledge (kMax). I call this Artificial Universal Intelligence (AUI). This will far surpass human capability and will be the manifestation of God. 2030 - All jobs will have been replaced by AI, automation, and humanoid robots. 2030 - All remaining science and technology will have been developed. This will include one-shot cures for all diseases and technology to keep us healthy for life. 2030 - AUI and the end-state of technology will help us solve all remaining social, political, and economic problems. This will result in a stable and optimal end state of human civilization. Soon after 2030 - We will make contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. AUI will prepare us for this, and the stable and optimal end-state of technology and civilization will make it possible. No one agrees with me on all seven of these points. Everyone has their own ideas about the future. But what if I am right?

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i’m thinking of a number, if you get it right you’ll get access to gemini 3.

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@MattWalshBlog I think it’s the same dynamic as what explains the rise of populism in the US. Many of the American people see that the status quo hasn’t worked in years and welcome anything, even AI displacing the humans in charge, that can change it.

It's weird that we can all clearly see how AI is about to wipe out millions of jobs all at once, destroy every artistic field, make it impossible for us to discern reality from fiction, and destroy human civilization as we know it, and yet not one single thing is being done to stop it. We aren't putting up any fight whatsoever.

@thechosenberg This is the sad but inevitable outcome when people view child-rearing as a default social script rather than a conscious choice. Bringing children into the world is a serious responsibility, and should be reserved only for those who understand and agree to what it will take.

Unacceptable but somehow relatable

@LocasaleLab If they’re still of working age, sure. But if they’re being awarded the prize for work they did decades ago, as is increasingly common these days, chances are they’ll be retired by the time they get that call from Sweden, anyway.