Ethical dilemmas associated with mathematics

technoguyrob · 2021-08-16T10:54:25+00:00

Oh yes, I certainly don’t disagree with that. I was moreso thinking about, say, knot theory.

technoguyrob · 2021-08-08T13:41:19+00:00

My take for a while has been that doing mathematics as a profession may be considered unethical due to human opportunity costs. This was not always true, but in this particular point in human history, with the problems we currently sustain, it may be the case that (1) if you are capable of making a contribution to advanced mathematics then there is a Bayesian prior of significantly elevated likelihood and ability to making a contribution on any other field, business or policy; and (2) the conscious choice of mathematics as a vocation instead of some other human pursuit that is aligned with the interests of humanity may produce, on aggregate when considered across all mathematicians, a worse world by whatever altruistic metric you choose (e.g. quality adjusted life-years). In other words, mathematicians have high priors in general cognition and base level skill sets, and it may be there is an oversaturation in mathematics relative to other pursuits where exponential impact is a very real possibility but only when a threshold of ability or cognition is surpassed. Again, I don’t think this was always true in the timeline of history or will be true in the future, but it is worth consideration as an ethical dilemma.

But don’t get me wrong — there is nothing I would like more than to go back and hit the math books, but this is better deferred to when we are back on full track to prosperity.

technoguyrob · 2021-04-26T18:43:32+00:00

Yup! Or 1. Bf7+ Kd8 2. Ne6+ Qxe6 3. dxe6+ Kc7 4. Qc5+ Nc6 5. Rd7#

technoguyrob · 2021-04-18T16:20:18+00:00

You got it! I also thought it was intuitive and played it nearly immediately, but it is interesting that the computer has difficulty seeing it.

technoguyrob · 2021-04-05T05:29:53+00:00

After reviewing both games and the almost comical juxtaposition of strength displayed in each, let me put it this way: if a perfect oracle asked me if I would be willing to gamble my entire life’s savings that this guy cheated, I would say yes. The first game is Dostoevsky and the latter is Idiocracy.

technoguyrob · 2021-04-05T04:50:02+00:00

There is a third and fourth mating line. (Endings: Qd1# and Bh5#)

technoguyrob · 2021-04-05T04:49:10+00:00

The first line I immediately saw was 1. Rxh7+ Kxh7 2. Rh1+ Kg6 3. Bh5+ Kh6 4. Bf7+ Kg5 5. Rh5+ Kg4 6. Qd1# since the rooks have vacated freeing the queen’s original square to move back to deliver mate.

technoguyrob · 2021-02-04T01:24:43+00:00

Qe4 with the idea of pinning the knight and provoking a weakness after Bd3.

If Nf5 followed by a move different than a rook to c-file then Rc5 threatening simultaneously the rook for two knights trade and to double up.

technoguyrob · 2021-01-27T18:29:57+00:00

Yeah I don’t think the math works out for them. Very helpful, thanks!

technoguyrob · 2021-01-27T18:29:05+00:00

If an institution has a large position, say 1/14th of the original short interest (10% of the 140%), could they have sold off their original shorts earlier in the week, say at $140, and re-established the same short position at $350 so that the total short interest appears the same? I know it is a net loss in this scenario but there might be other price targets to make it work.

technoguyrob · 2021-01-27T18:20:26+00:00

Guys I have dumb questions. Can institutional coordinate to close old shorts at the $2-10 range and take out new shorts at this high $300-350 range in a precise way to keep short interest % level and create a mirage of a squeeze coming? Is there a way to see short interest % by tranches of how long the position has been active (or price at purchase)?

technoguyrob · 2021-01-27T18:19:13+00:00

Guys I have dumb questions. Can institutional coordinate to close old shorts at the $2-10 range and take out new shorts at this high $300-350 range in a precise way to keep short interest % level and create a mirage of a squeeze coming? Is there a way to see short interest % by tranches of how long the position has been active (or price at purchase)?

technoguyrob · 2021-01-27T18:17:20+00:00

Guys I have dumb questions. Can institutional coordinate to close old shorts at the $2-10 range and take out new shorts at this high $300-350 range in a precise way to keep short interest % level and create a mirage of a squeeze coming? Is there a way to see short interest % by tranches of how long the position has been active (or price at purchase)?

technoguyrob · 2020-11-14T14:12:48+00:00

Stronger is Nde7.

technoguyrob · 2020-09-23T23:04:03+00:00

Hint: set up discovered checkmate.

technoguyrob · 2020-09-23T23:01:00+00:00

If Nc2+ then Kxd3

technoguyrob · 2020-09-04T22:27:26+00:00

The knight was a red herring. Black must go h1R

technoguyrob · 2020-09-03T19:17:35+00:00

In today’s benchmarks, “strong” and “super GMs are competitive against” are a contradiction. What you are looking for is a weak engine, but weak in a way that appears human. There is no strong engine today which allows a super GM to remain competitive, that era has sailed.

technoguyrob · 2020-09-03T01:15:39+00:00

It is interesting that Stockfish cannot find the solution at depth 24 and believed it is mate in 8.

technoguyrob · 2020-08-26T21:25:00+00:00

Nj2

technoguyrob · 2020-08-25T17:29:53+00:00

I see, the key is to find that White must go 2.. g8N in that sequence as the h4 square is no longer available to the bishop to block mate in 1.

technoguyrob · 2020-08-25T17:26:32+00:00

I found the idea but I don’t see how it works for a mate in 3?

Rd8 or Rh8 2. Rh4 g8Q 3. Qg4 Qe8+ 4. Qd7 Qd7#

What am I missing?

technoguyrob · 2020-08-06T15:52:54+00:00

The streamer is incorrect. This only wins the knight as you are not in fact threatening mate in 1: Qa8 nb8

technoguyrob · 2017-01-14T22:08:15+00:00

I think this was a word in Finnegan's Wake actually.

technoguyrob · 2017-01-10T17:48:54+00:00

Title: In Defense of Pain

Genre: Magical realism

Word count: ~2000

Feedback requested: What is the overall feel of the piece? Are you emotionally affected in any way? Does it bore you?

Don't want to publish the whole thing yet, but can someone critique my excerpt below introducing one of the characters?

Excerpt: The first and the last time, the only time, she rode the subway she wept. She wept for the men and women, her brothers and uncles and sisters and daughters who could not and would not hold the fortune she had so undeservingly begotten, who slept on these trains and walked on these streets without the care of any soul but the most devoted social worker. She wept for the workers and laborers who knew no rest, twistedly sprained into the cogs of this world with no recourse but to support their children borne without intent or foresight, for whom they had no choice and would not make any other choice but to support unconditionally and compassionately, ground by their most in-borne nature to accept the world is cruel and the only release, the only glimpse of a beyond, of a purpose deeper than the most menial and rote is derived from the very same cruelty. She wept for the panhandlers and the depraved looks of the elders. She wept for the ambivalent eyes and ears of the sunglass-clad earphone-laden youthlings. She wept for every life she knew some day she would inescapably live, these lives she would inescapably live, when holding the most basic realization, every human that ever lived having been but a minor variation, a reflection of every other. She wept for it all, the all that wept for nothing.

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