Ralf Stephan

okay so. when a mathematician proves a random conjecture you are supposed to politely clap. this is because it would be rude and embarrass the mathematician to point out that most conjectures are not that important or meaningful when an LLM proves a random conjecture mathematicians are caught in a funny position where they want to say "these are not very important or meaningful conjectures and having magic proofs or counterexamples come out of nowhere is not particularly interesting or useful to anybody, except possibly the person who proposed the conjecture and some of their colleagues" but saying that puts them in an awkward position - why didn't they say that when humans were doing it? was nearly all mathematics actually pointless this whole time and mathematicians were just politely avoiding ever pointing this out so they could all still have jobs? if the best defense you can come up with of mathematics as a human endeavor is, effectively, "it's really fun for us to come up with these baroque puzzles and then solve them, don't screw this up for us," you are completely abdicating your responsibility as a public endeavor that taxpayers fund. i have occasionally argued that pure mathematics lost the plot decades ago and gave up on having any kind of meaningful relationship to the rest of the human quest to understand reality. this was a slow-burning tragedy, and mathematicians have been able to hide this state of affairs from everybody else because nobody else knows enough mathematics to critique what mathematicians are doing i saw a famous professor point out a few years ago that the machine learning that underpins AI is powered by 18th or maybe 19th century mathematics, you don't need much more than multivariable calculus, linear algebra, a bit of probability. he said this as if it was a dunk on ML and AI; imo it's a much bigger dunk on mathematics. you're telling me the most important scientific revolution of our lifetimes doesn't involve any of the math that mathematicians have been working on over the last century or two? you see how that's worse, right? (tbc i'm not saying that stuff is all useless, you need a bunch of stuff from the first half of the 20th century to do physics, e.g. functional analysis, lie theory, representation theory all feed into the standard model. after 1950 or so things get more dicey) if mathematicians still want to have jobs they are going to have to do a better job than they have for the last few decades convincing the public they do something that actually matters, and figuring out what that actually is or should be. this is an opportunity for the field to do some very serious soul-searching, as serious or more serious than the foundational crisis from a century ago. this kind of whining is absolutely not going to cut it

I have a report full of security issues of a software I'm working on. Codex won't fix them because of Cyber guardrails Fable won't fix them because of Cyber guardrails Kimi K3 fixed them all. No restrictions, just gets the job done. This will end badly for OpenAI & Anthropic.

In the full 226-problem ErdosBench run, GPT‑5.5 xhigh Codex is the strongest correctness-adjusted model. Kimi K2.7 Code is the most creative challenger but has substantially weaker solved-claim proof hygiene after strict verification. Claude Opus 4.8 max is the strongest reviewer/partial-progress model. Qwen 3.7 Max is useful for corroboration but should not be used as a lead source for public solved claims.

Hamas is a genocidal cult: Recently uncovered documents from slain Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar reveal the depth of his depravity and the extent to which he knowingly steered Gaza toward catastrophe. Handwritten notes drafted a year before the attack show Sinwar anticipated a ferocious Israeli counter‑offensive, even speculating, in his own words, about the possibility of an Israeli nuclear retaliation on Gaza. Despite uncertainty over whether Iran or Hezbollah would join the fight, he outlined a plan to deploy up to ten thousand fighters from Gaza to seize Israeli towns, expel civilians, hold hostages, and wage what he described as a life‑or‑death battle. These notes align with earlier documents from Sinwar’s archive detailing his intent to use extreme brutality to maximize terror, fear, and psychological trauma among Israelis. The implications are stark. Hamas’s crimes against humanity were not only committed against Israelis but also against the Palestinian people. The fascist organization employed ISIS‑grade tactics, fully aware that the attack went far beyond any military objective and could provoke overwhelming Israeli retaliation. Sinwar’s delusions were matched only by his ignorance: Israel does not need nuclear weapons to inflict devastating harm on Gaza. Yet Hamas deliberately launched an intentionally genocidal assault, predicting, and banking on, an Israeli survival response that would devastate Gaza and then be weaponized for global sympathy. In doing so, Hamas sacrificed 2.3 million Palestinians for a propaganda strategy. This alone should compel the immediate, unconditional, and unequivocal rejection of Hamas by anyone claiming to support Palestinian rights. It should erase any doubt that Islamist extremists pose an existential threat to Palestinian survival, freedom, and the possibility of building a society not dragged into wars its rulers knowingly design to be catastrophic. When you are the weaker party facing the most far‑right government in Israel’s history, your obligation is to safeguard your people, not gamble their lives on apocalyptic fantasies. Hamas’s failure to do so is a betrayal worthy of absolute condemnation. It forfeits any Hamas claim to political relevance and demands that those responsible for October 7 be treated as traitors and murderers of their own people.

So much noise online regarding the term "judeo-Christian." Guys -- in academia it's simply the term that describes the combined corpus of Old and New Testaments. The Jewish heritage of the Hebrew scriptures combined with the New Testament. That's it. I know you want there to be some conspiracy but there isnt, that's the way we're using it. It has nothing to do with geo-politics or a one world order.