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2026-05-28 07:55 UTC

new Scott Aaronson blog post just dropped, about those solved Erdos problems, AI short stories and the Pope’s anti-AI stance. Ending with this paragraph: And so, at this momentous era for the human project, and no less of an authority than that of the Vicar of Christ himself, the Supreme Pontiff and the Successor of Peter, I hereby throw myself on the wisdom and mercy of … uhh, Chris Olah and his team at Anthropic.

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@lurker@awful.systems 2026-05-28 08:40

The part about the AI generated story about ancient Israelis tugging at his heartstrings made me dig up the post where he proudly proclaims himself a zionist and creates an insane trolley problem: awful.systems/post/5437903

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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-05-28 08:40

Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance Look, I admire professional math researchers as much as the next guy, but they’re literally balancing on top of the economic pyramid of needs. This is a profession that cannot exist outside a culture with a surplus that can afford higher education, because there’s no economic incentive to hire them to do that kind of work. So GenAI can solve Erdos problems. Can it unplug a drain or repave a road? Fuck no. Can it handle refuse for a city? Also fuck no. Maybe professional math researchers will go the way of professional typesetters. I think humanity will retain its relevance.

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@blakestacey@awful.systems 2026-05-28 17:15

Sadly, Erdős never invented a problem based on counting the r’s in strawberry.

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