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Multiple readings A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

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“A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transition the fastest, so it was felt most. Other fields next. terr…” evidence ↗
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Melanie Mitchell Nathan Lambert Eugene Vinitsky Meredith Broussard Justin Hendrix Robin Hanson rat king 🐀 👑 Dare Obasanjo +3
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“"...the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community."”

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“If rewarding AI mathematicians by the same metric that we have rewarded humans ones make math go badly, then we are probably rewarding the human ones badly. With good reward metrics, we shouldn't care who wins them. https://t.co/CO6Z9o3mcW”

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Nathan Lambert: A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transiti…
Melanie Mitchell: A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transiti…
Jonathan Stray: There are concerns in here I share but I can’t endorse this. This satirical response kinda sums it up “A Severe Misalignment of AI and Cancer Biology” x.com/mbeisen/stat...
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15 experts · 41 posts · 10d ago
Mike Masnick Scott McGrath Grace Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jake Dan Hon Doll Alex Rubinsteyn
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“You released a surprise project that spread a lot of joy and humor, and people drag you for HOW you made it? There are conversations that are needed about appropriate AI usage, and finding the bala…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 2 Policy & governance · 1
Grace: He's upfront with when he uses AI, so you can trust he's upfront with when he doesn't
mackuba.eu: Please just stop…
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9 experts · 13 posts · 8d ago
Alex Hanna Alondra Nelson Sireesh Gururaja Tamara Kneese Matthew Kirschenbaum Michael Zimmer Dan Hon Gina Helfrich
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“Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we curren…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Alex Hanna: Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we curren…
Veni Kunche: Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we curren…
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2 experts · 3 posts · 17d ago
Dan Hon Andy Baio
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“... and anyway you might just want to migrate and exfiltrate instructions and memory, you don't necessarily need to copy the weights around and run them.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Dan Hon: which idiot has given a harnessed agent the task of setting itself up to successfully run on another node yet
Andy Baio: Why bother when a swarm of agents could just exfiltrate API keys to cloud LLMs or use free-tier models for compute? Seems like it's so much easier to scan vibecoded projects and hack droplets for c…
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2 experts · 2 posts · 20d ago
Erin Kissane Dan Hon
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“I agree but also I’m (no surprise) afraid it’s not *just* the algorithms, but the architecture of online spaces. So broadly defined AI but also maybe the whole flowering of the platform-centric soc…” evidence ↗
Dan Hon: "humanity will survive this rapid transition" is great for the species sure, we've been through bottlenecks before, but not so great at the individual level
Erin Kissane: I agree but also I’m (no surprise) afraid it’s not *just* the algorithms, but the architecture of online spaces. So broadly defined AI but also maybe the whole flowering of the platform-centric soc…
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