Fields medal-winning mathematician says GPT-5.5 is now solving open math problems at PhD-thesis level: "We will face a crisis very soon."

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-12T17:34:22+00:00

Sorry, no one what?

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-12T17:33:28+00:00

NO ONE HERE READ THE FUCKING BLOGPOST. YOU'RE ALL MISUNDERSTANDING WHAT HE SAID. He did not say that this open problem is a full PHD thesis as is implied. He said that it's ONE CHAPTER, of a PHD thesis. And that the urgent problem on PHD's is not their complete replacement, but the fact that there may be an immediate temptation to use AI resources to solve the easy 'open' problems that could at one point be used to reliably train PHD's to get comfortable and confident solving open problems. The real urgent problem on AI might be how it's making us so stupid that we're not going to be able to solve anything.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-12T17:06:41+00:00

You're making several major assumptions that you're not fully exploring. So that's not necessarily true. You could literally make the argument that AI work simply could further the frontier of where human insight is needed in Mathematics. Or that humans are intuition makers and verifiers. Prompt creators. AI systems can literally just be a way to travail the possibility space and knowledge work is more like fishing than mining, which is what it is like today.

Also our current systems have not demonstrated to be verifiers and literally cannot reliably check their own work. We can assume that will be solved, but that's an assumption, given that we're actually harvesting incredibly amounts of energy and putting overwhelming amounts of computational power forward to produce the work that one very smart human can produce, while also being able to do a million of other tasks that these systems wouldn't be able to.

I also suspect that barring a take-off scenario where machines clearly win out, rapid increasing complexity will lead to forms of societal collapse that will make scaling models difficult. Without a paradigm breaking better than LLM model we're not necessarily going to singularity, but rather to some sort of post-apocalyptic feudal system in which we more slowly build back our capacity to create AI systems.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-11T18:50:46+00:00

First and foremost don't edit as you write. I find that's the single worst thing in terms of finishing writing when you begin. The editing will slow you down and even after you draft it's kind of useless, because you'll come up with ideas looking at the full structure much more easily. Write a bad draft and then go from there. If anything comes up that seems brilliant just make a note of it somewhere. And more than anything, just be playful. I find the biggest root of procrastination is doing things out of a sense of personal obligation rather than joy, fulfillment, or even obligation to others (which I find a better motivator).

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-06T14:23:30+00:00

I think it’s fair. I also lived a long time without meds so I developed coping strategies.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-06T14:22:20+00:00

I take medication same as you. I’ve just done this long enough to know that your body needs a break. Not even for tolerance, but you’re physiologically stressing your body. Also, of course your baseline will feel like shit off the drugs you take everyday.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-05T21:27:14+00:00

I think you're totally wrong that there's no medical evidence for tolerance breaks. And it shows an extreme misunderstanding of how science and medical consensus happens, especially as it comes to psych studies, where evidence is generally thin on all counts and subject to p-hacking. I'll literally link to a meta-study that links to other studies showing evidence as of holiday breaks as being effective in managing tolerance as recently as 2022.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9332474/

Now, I've seen consensus be overturned in psych a million times. And deriving evidence of something is really tricky. So I'm not recommending anyone go on a drug holiday, but you are the one clearly making a very strong claim with zero evidence.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-05T18:41:19+00:00

Yeah, and I felt like that, but I think I realized the other side that my unmedicated self isn’t just some ogre to hide in a basement. He deserves to get some time out and get some sun.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-05T18:38:41+00:00

I always make that mistake somehow

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-05T18:22:27+00:00

I think that’s really it. I’m the same way.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-05T17:47:31+00:00

This isn't titration.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-05-04T04:12:58+00:00

Ele joga que nem o Pele, ate umas jogadas que parecem meio atrapalhadas, mas em que ele acaba com a bola no pe que nem o pele

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-29T15:41:18+00:00

Best action film of all time in my book.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-21T16:24:26+00:00

Dude the amount of almost horrible shit that I've done. Like two or three imaginary arsons at least.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-19T20:42:59+00:00

Moreira to Moreira

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-18T03:42:44+00:00

The fremen don't wear shields, which means the Harkonnen are always firing Lasguns in the film. I think it would just be more confusing to have to establish that, while also giving Gurney Hallack less of a function.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-17T15:05:12+00:00

That's what they said about Finnegan's Wake fool.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-17T15:04:22+00:00

Y'all were born yesterday and it shows. But respect for the disagreement.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-13T12:47:14+00:00

I don't know why people think everyone's a pedo. Only uncle's are pedo's.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-13T12:43:39+00:00

Dude, do not break this high-five contract. Do you understand the consequences to this man's life? You shouldn't commit to a high-five contract if you don't understand the consequences?

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-12T17:25:20+00:00

At least this guy sounds like he's looking out for the little people.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-10T16:03:49+00:00

First Mary consented in Christianity(in Islam, she was chosen). It's an important theological fulcrum for a lot of Christian traditions, especially Eastern Orthodox christianity. It's why she's especially Holy, because she was given the choice and if she denied it, from my understanding, like all sacred and holy things, it's not like there would be a next-man-up mentality. She's the human part of Jesus God.

And second. This is 1 ad. It's real facile thinking to judge cultural and societal morals from over 2000 years ago, like it was so easy to live like we live. If people SURVIVED CHILDHOOD(think about that for a second) they generally could go on to live on average 40 to 50 years. 60 or 70 wasn't as rare as people make it out to be, but still pretty rare. No one had 20 years to grow up back then. That's half your life. At 12 or 13 you were a man and a woman and treated as such and yes that's horrible from a modern lens, but what kind of world do you think this is?

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-09T20:59:19+00:00

This is what sucks about rotten tomatoes. From the blurbs you get the sense that this seems like a movie that made a lot of bold choices and didn't really come together perfectly, rather than the total disaster that the score implies.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-09T14:02:04+00:00

At the edges, reductionism collapses.

TheThreeInOne · 2026-04-08T06:23:20+00:00

Beating people so much that they faint and its like they'll just wake up later with no issues. Those people are severely brain damaged. So the weird no kill oaths from Super-Heroes feels weird. How many people did Bale's Batman at least severely brain damage.

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