I draw my ace under my sleeve to respond to these reviewers, and it is truly an ace(I had been saving it for a future time). So much so that I got super inspired and now I have as an objective to create the material Megalon from the Megalopolis film!!!
Every time I'm peer reviewed in my solid state paper, I learn more about material science. It's actually super fascinating, but I'm tired of correcting the same paper...
I'll probably write a post about this. This is a massive change that will affect everyone, I'll probably focus on what I care about(like science and experiments), but it is something to deeply ponder about...
Still the things that are already in place are truly disruptive. What about programming education ? Are all non-professional websites going to look like that Claude/ChatGPT template? Is coding going to homogenize due to the proclivity to efficiency? are we going to be overall less creative?
All of these are good questions I think none have the answer. Also keep in mind that more breakthroughs might also come, I think we actually might be closer than anyone think to truly creative AI. I mean to some extent science has similar marginal cost properties. Since fundamentally is only ideas.
Software has always been a very strange entity. It has basically zero marginal cost, and now with the advent of AI, the cost of producing simple applications is essentially zero. We are in a very turbulent time, is it useful to have UX skills? Is taste now all that matters? what about maintenance ?
I feel the terror of the future. Btw, I was taking my QM exams just 10 years ago. I think there is no doubt in my mind that degrees after 2030 will have a completely different meaning from the ones before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcQP...
I’ll be interested in your opinion on this @tomnicholas.bsky.social
This really makes me think that revolutions that require social change can be realised incredibly quickly. It’s all about creating the right institution. This makes me think that Kevin Buzzard is in fact a Great Founder. His social technology will be felt in centuries.
A fun anecdote is that in 2017 I read this post from 2014. @science4all.org claimed that formalised math is something that will take a century. It only took 10 years… Moreover it is about to be revolutionised by AI. So it is already further from what he expected!
This was clear to me after watching the 2019 Microsoft Research talk by Kevin Buzzard. He is an incredible part of this story. Him alone probably accelerated this transition a decade or two. However a lot of work was done beforehand, COQ, Univalent Foundations,…
A fun anecdote is that in 2017 I read this post from 2014.
@science4all.org
claimed that formalised math is something that will take a century. It only took 10 years… Moreover it is about to be revolutionised by AI. So it is already further from what he expected!
I posted this 5 years ago, and today this is about to be a reality. The IMO 2025 has been solved by AI and it’s open source🐳. AIs are already contributing to cutting-edge math research. AI and formalised proofs are widespread in al echelons of Math.
It is not clear to me that any of the current projects they are working Fusion, Superconductivity, and Navier Stokes is a low hanging fruit of the current AI paradigm. Because I think if they were, they would have solved them already. They 'have' shown progress, but how far are they really ???
After watching the Thinking Game documentary, I can see how Google and Deepmind are in deep trouble. They missed the LLM moment, and now they face fierce competition in every AI front, not only for products, but also for science. One could say that they are working on long-term projects, but...
I was in the Zara in Colombia, and God... so many beautiful women...
People seem to be very excited about Gemini 3, but keep in mind that OpenAI pioneered the AI chat. So Google has been catching up since 2022!, but so has everyone else. Not only there are now about 20 other chats with almost equal capabilities, they are coming from both startups and big tech.
I’m certain that there is something to it, a lot of my thoughts for the last 4 years are merged there. But I still need to properly write it and check if things actually hold together. I have a hunch that it wasn’t a fever dream…
I thought strongly about novelty search and how to apply it to my current work in open endedness in cellular automata. After a lot of good ideas I constructed a proof of the possibility of infinite scalability in the universe. Just like Poincaré I wrote it crystallised in a piece of paper.
Yesterday I had a very similar experience to Poincaré. I wasn’t able to sleep because I drunk a coffee at night and I was focused for several hours to synthesise my thoughts about evolution as a fundamental law of the universe. It was a coincidence because I read what I needed before going to sleep.
Whenever a dynamical law divides the state-space into such separate cycles, there is a memory of which cycle they started in. Such a memory is called a conservation lan, it tells us that
I’ve been casual student of physics for four decades. Why did no one ever explain to me so clearly what a conservation law is?
From Susskind and Hrabovsky (2014) The Theoretical Minimum.
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This is why reading basic material from brilliant thinkers is so often worth the investment.
Catholicism is fundamentally pure suffering.
Of course there are exceptions to all of these, however the more the person is immersed in the system, the less of an exception they will be. Also, there are outliers, but honestly, probably none of this applies to them, so who cares. A truly remarkable individual will make his own journey anyways…
The reason for this phenomenon is that probably the 30something has something missing and that something is not easy to fix. Whereas the 20something has a higher chance of having that something easy to fix. It is a bit heartbreaking, but the world is harsh.
At your 20s you are mostly potential and people will take risk by taking you, but at 30 if you have not shown any accomplishment, the risk is a lot larger, and the return is unknown. Compare this to a similar profile with modest accomplishments or even a 20something with your exact same profile.
As a minimum, you gain discipline and work ethic, which is essential in the future. By the time you hit 30, things get a lot more murky, because you have enough data points in your CV for people to figure out your capabilities. And this is why people will treat you differently from where you are 20…
Unless you choose a very fixed career like medicine or law, things are very open ended. The only advice I have is that you should choose something, anything really, and pursue it. Not choosing is a terrible idea. It is better to choose wrong, and change later rather than not to choose at all.
Yes, this IS the difficult part of the journey… the exiting part is the risk! To give structure to the risk is the difficulty. Honestly, I don’t think there is a right way. It is all very much up to chance, where do you start, to what do you build upon.
It’s easier to focus in your late 20s, but by then you should have a foundation of where to pull. At this point things sound quite harsh, you don’t know where to start, and you are supposed by mid 20s to build on something, and by 30 you should have a point of achievement(I’ll come to this later).
