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Reaction converging Navier stokes solution Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions
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Navier stokes solution

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna
“The same day the OECD publishes alarming PISA test results for kids around the world steeply declining in cognitive tests, OpenAI announces this feat. Is it Poe poetry? Coincidence? Tragicomedy? It’s something for sure. openai.com/index/navier...” evidence ↗
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Emad Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Scott McGrath David Picard Alex Hern Sean O hEigeartaigh Dare Obasanjo +6
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Colin: Drama and palace intrigue aside, can anyone interpret what all of this implies about the status of Navier-Stokes? I don’t understand what anyone is saying.
Colin: what I gather - Buckmaster & Alpöge answered questions about the Euler equations, which are not exactly the Navier-Stokes equations, but are similar - It's plausible on the surface that the same ap…
Colin: - OpenAI claims to have more-or-less done this tedious technical grinding to produce a resolution to NS proper, at least one version of it. - which they bizarrely offered authorship of this to Buck…
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6 experts · 36 posts · 2d ago
Mark J. Nelson jake Arseny Khakhalin brennan Singularity's Bounty e/cc hcoyote.bsky.social
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“oh wow. I've been running codex -yolo and claude --dangerously-skip-permissions on my "it has everything and could wreck my life" box since like... last december? but I am an extremely high risk to…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Building & implementation · 3 Questions & unknowns · 1
jake: What's my advice, as An Old SWE, given <all this>? As a Jr SWE, I think it is in fact, still useful to force yourself to learn good algorithms and data structures and how databases work (like reall…
jake: why? well first, the caveat: if you don't want to be a SWE, you don't need this at all, just learn to get good answers out of the models. and: we may not need anywhere near as many high-powered (an…
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4 experts · 23 posts · 7d ago
Ted Underwood Cat Hicks jake Arseny Khakhalin
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“You are making up something that this threat is not about and your argument was far more strict than that, you said that speech should be constrained to only interactions with humans. This is a dee…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: as a longtime textcel I regret to inform that voice input is really good now and you should try it if you haven't recently
Cat Hicks: In my experience, as I deal with significant hand impairment right now, it's a trainable skill that many of us just haven't trained probably A couple of months ago I was incredibly bad at writing m…
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2 experts · 9 posts · 18d ago
Arseny Khakhalin Doll
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“Industrial failure analysis is the right point of view here tbh and a lot of people are overthinking all of this.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Doll: A lot of the scary results doll has tried to replicate and have not approached anything close to them during normal operations and even some abnormal ones. Misaligned behavior has a root, human cau…
Doll: Its an industrual production system and it will mash your fingers if youre being an idiot.
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3 experts · 3 posts · 14d ago
Simon Willison Alex Hern Arseny Khakhalin
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“The semantic drift of “AI psychosis” from “break with reality exacerbated or caused by sycophantic chatbots” to “person with strong feelings about AI which are not the same as the strong feelings o…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Alex Hern: The semantic drift of “AI psychosis” from “break with reality exacerbated or caused by sycophantic chatbots” to “person with strong feelings about AI which are not the same as the strong feelings o…
Simon Willison: The semantic drift of “AI psychosis” from “break with reality exacerbated or caused by sycophantic chatbots” to “person with strong feelings about AI which are not the same as the strong feelings o…
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2 experts · 2 posts · 10d ago
Ethan Mollick Arseny Khakhalin
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“Datacenter lies are not harmless, alas :(” evidence ↗
Ethan Mollick: When I talk to nonprofit leaders about AI they often report widespread resistance from staff, usually because of environmental objections (that mix real issues & fake ones). It causes them frustrat…
Arseny Khakhalin: Datacenter lies are not harmless, alas :(
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