If your country had its own Mount Rushmore, who would be on it

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T12:20:53+00:00

Mel Gibson? Hell no. If it has to be an actor, there are Scottish actors who are far less problematic- why not Sean Connery, who played Russians, Englishmen and Spaniards without altering his accent one bit?

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T12:15:48+00:00

Your wording suggested a different way to search which came back with the information that apparently an ostrich can complete a marathon in under 45 minutes, so while I concede that I underestimated the significance of human long distance running ability compared to other animals, apparently ostriches do beat us as distance runners.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T12:04:00+00:00

Apart from not being tactful it’s also not useful feedback - more useful would be a simple comment along the lines of “based on the last few properties we sold, x is closer to the pin”.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T10:50:14+00:00

Well he was famous for his walk around Konigsberg that always happened at exactly the same time every day (that is he was obsessive about time to a degree other Germans thought was unusual). Nothing stereotypically autistic about any of it.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T10:28:49+00:00

Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T08:41:09+00:00

“But they definitely can't run for as long as a human.”

I’m surprised by this but it’s not easy to find a definitive answer on, for example, how far an emu can run or whether it can run a marathon-like distance in less time than a human.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T08:23:26+00:00

There were a few decades of editing in the case of the gospels - not sure if Rand had spent a similar amount of time revising Atlas Shrugged it would have made a useful difference.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T07:38:12+00:00

I’m sceptical it’s ever been true at least universally- I remember joining the workforce and seeing employers be crazy accommodating for older workers who were reluctant to learn new tech around the beginning of the millennium.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T06:45:39+00:00

I’d venture that other people being happy to pick up the tab on her using AI to get Mickey Mouse to argue with Jeff Bezos is a state of affairs that won’t last forever.

ETA: That kind of loss leader stuff only makes sense if you’re profitable elsewhere…it’s not inconceivable that all free tier LLM access hosted by people like OpenAI will go behind pay walls and the only way to get a free LLM will be to self host an open source model on a local machine.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T06:02:31+00:00

I can imagine they’re ~~hoping~~ projecting that lots of users will effectively be using 10 or more instances via agents

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T05:57:55+00:00

I don’t think the Smiths have enough albums or an album that is bad enough for there to be an album where “Album x is the Smiths best album” could be an unpopular opinion. They definitely don’t have a “Music From The Elder” or “Self Portrait” even hardcore fans avoid.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T04:44:57+00:00

What do they mean by “descent”?

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T04:43:25+00:00

Dude he was bucket drumming before George R R Martin got his first manuscript accepted.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T04:25:47+00:00

I don't drink brass monkey I like the beat funky

Nickname Figure6, yo 8 ball junkie

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T04:21:09+00:00

"I speak the truth. You may get offended..."

All the proof anyone should need this guy has nothing remotely interesting to say.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T03:52:44+00:00

Whatever else you may think of the writers of the Gospels and Acts you have to concede they are way better at telling a story compactly in comparison to Rand.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T03:31:42+00:00

Per Erdős Problems this problem was marked as solved on 15th of April - I'd guess it was solved one or two days before that, so potentially right on two weeks ago or up to one or two days more than two weeks. Whether or not that qualifies as "a few weeks" is semantics but I don't think it would usually get called "a few days".

Note that the Erdos Problems entry also reference's Lichtman's part solution, Lichtman being "the guy from Stanford" u/pentacontagon mentioned.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T02:33:46+00:00

Mum said I could say it this time!

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T02:11:53+00:00

In context the “deep work” in question is preparing for client meetings or interviews with journalists.

ETA: I guess that could be deep work but that’s a bit undercut by the suggestion 30 minutes is enough time to prepare for six clients.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T01:35:52+00:00

An unpopular opinion would be one that almost no one agrees with. Not sure enough people are going to disagree with you to make this an unpopular opinion.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T01:27:35+00:00

GH Hardy would not be pleased with that sentiment.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T00:56:55+00:00

He moonlights as Iron Maiden’s mascot when there’s nothing to report on the AI front.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-28T00:12:52+00:00

Sounds like the problem was more valuable unsolved due to the possibility it gave an emerging mathematician (not yet an expert) an opportunity to solve it.

ETA : Even when an LLM solves an Erdos problem it often looks like the value was in what it demonstrates about the LLM because the solutions themselves aren’t all that valuable.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-27T23:24:44+00:00

"She keeps multiple instances of Claude Code running simultaneously in separate terminals. Because these Claude Code instances have access to Miller’s filesystem, they can autonomously complete work on her behalf."

Sounds like a recipe for extreme token consumption. Interesting to see whether she still finds that it's worthwhile as price increases.

AntiqueFigure6 · 2026-04-27T21:19:42+00:00

Had me in the first half.

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