@fkasummer

You say that the times are bad. Be better yourselves, and the times will be better: You are the times. Technology must multiply human agency. DMs closed.

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If you have an obsessive streak, this is the greatest time to be working on frontier technology. The problems are genuinely monumentally difficult, which makes progress feel amazing. Besides, it's quiet on the frontier. None of the circus of mainstream AI.
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How do you find topological phases that symmetry indicators can't capture? A new paper constructs topological invariants systematically from the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence, fully classifying superconductors in 159 of 230 space groups. More: go.aps.org/4eRPNBV
Rectangle diagram titled “All 3D topological phases in K-theory.” A large yellow rectangle represents 2D topological invariants and is divided into three columns: Gapless, TI/TSC, and Atomic states. Inside it is a smaller orange rectangle (1D invariants), with a red-and-orange striped region within labeled "Symmetry indicators.” A small green rectangle (3D invariants) sits on top of the TI/TSC column. A legend on the right identifies each color: red for 0D, orange for 1D, yellow for 2D, and green for 3D invariants.

ALT Rectangle diagram titled “All 3D topological phases in K-theory.” A large yellow rectangle represents 2D topological invariants and is divided into three columns: Gapless, TI/TSC, and Atomic states. Inside it is a smaller orange rectangle (1D invariants), with a red-and-orange striped region within labeled "Symmetry indicators.” A small green rectangle (3D invariants) sits on top of the TI/TSC column. A legend on the right identifies each color: red for 0D, orange for 1D, yellow for 2D, and green for 3D invariants.

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Talk about ambition.
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Technology hasn't done this in a very long time.
Istra of Glome
@byistraOct 23
C.S. Lewis, a special kind of longing
In a sense a child does not long for fairy land as a boy longs to be the hero of the first eleven. Does anyone suppose that he really and prosaically longs for all the dangers and discomforts of a fairy tale?—really wants dragons in contemporary England? It is not so. It would be much truer to say that fairy land arouses a longing for he knows not what. It stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far from dulling or emptying the actual world, gives it a new dimension of depth. He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted. This is a special kind of longing.

ALT In a sense a child does not long for fairy land as a boy longs to be the hero of the first eleven. Does anyone suppose that he really and prosaically longs for all the dangers and discomforts of a fairy tale?—really wants dragons in contemporary England? It is not so. It would be much truer to say that fairy land arouses a longing for he knows not what. It stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far from dulling or emptying the actual world, gives it a new dimension of depth. He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted. This is a special kind of longing.

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Whatever this is, I feel the exact opposite. Can you not hear the call?
yuzu
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i need to accept that there is no going back. all that was good and beautiful is irrevocably lost. i can never repeat the past, no matter how intensely i wish it into existence.
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What should I read on the reflexivity of the evolution of perception and cognition in relation to scientific knowledge?
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Christ was a genius technologist.
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What is the relationship between reflexivity and the limits of human knowledge?
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Hegel, Sloterdijk
clara@clarafables18h
have you ever finished a book and thought, 'okay, i’m reading everything this person writes'?
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akhil retweeted
LM Sacasas@LMSacasas22h
"The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it." — Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason
Dean W. Ball
@deanwballOct 23
We tried to warn the world and far too often, to be frank, we were yelled at for doing so. “Regulatory capture,” “marketing hype,” “doomer anxiety,” “fear-mongering about open source,” “why don’t you talk about the benefits?”
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Replying to @esoterikkant @fkasummer
u should get used to secrets for the coming times
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Humor is an interesting demonstration of intelligence because it creates an experience that cannot be explained, or it loses its power. Good contrast to intelligence as a theory-building process, which is the dominant frame today.
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Everything I've been working on has led to one deeply mysterious problem that cuts across CS, math, and physics. Strange, ineffable mystery. Historically, people who've come close start talking about theology (?!).
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The French beat us to it.
k h ô i@khoiiiindOct 23
sorely in need of formal verification
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Lecture notes: "Quantum field theory and four-manifolds: Perspectives from physics and geometry" (by Niklas Garner, Martijn Kool, Jan Manschot, Yuuji Tanaka): arxiv.org/abs/2610.30288

Quantum field theory and four-manifolds: Perspectives from physics...

These lecture notes are based on lecture series by the authors for the Summer School 2025 on ``Physical mathematics of quantum field theory" at the University of Massachusetts Amherst organized by...

arxiv.org
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"the nagging question was why Kepler’s astronomy worked so well although his pre-Newtonian physics was so ineffective. Though his instinct for physical problems was sound, his tools were not, and the success of his astronomy depended on his ability to shift to (frankly, metaphysical presuppositions) when his physical ones gave out."
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something that i think gets lost in the theranos stuff is that it’s not just that the stuff didn’t work and they lied, though they did, it’s that what they were trying to do was straight up not possible in any way.
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Yes.
Wolf Tivy
@wolftivyOct 23
Do you think it's even possible to have a healthy culture with something like the internet?
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Work making me think of Cézanne.
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