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The Mathematics of Power
“We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.” - AHM Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents
"We urge mathematicians to discontinue the illusion that their talents aren't aligned with the highest bidder in the geopolitical arena, recognizing that modern science is driven entirely by wealth accumulation and global dominance rather than abstract ideals." - Samim's Real Politics of Science Statement
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AI vibe coding convinced everybody in companies - from CEO to accountant - that they're a 'software engineer' entitled to push slop to prod. They confused spitting out code with actual systems thinking. Now real devs are stuck babysitting their bug-infested insanity.
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Codebases are starting to look like optimized topology 3d prints
Codebases are starting to look like optimized topology 3d prints. When AI is better at math than humans it also becomes better at algorithm & codebase design. At that point the system and delivering quality software doesn’t require human understanding to exist in the actual code layer.
Only needs to be understood by humans at the high level of passing testing, verification, vibe checks and being understandable when queried via AI in the rare case one need to dive deeper.
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Hungersteine is visible again
Hungersteine are becoming visible. Large stones, their name "Hunger Stones" linked to the risk of famine during droughts, and often inscribed with dates or other markings commemorating periods of low water. They remain hidden for decades.
But water levels in Europe’s biggest rivers are falling towards record lows, including the Rhine, Europe’s busiest inland waterway, and this Hunger Stone, with the dates 1892 and 2003, is a natural rock water level marker near 15th century Leckwitz on the Elbe river, in Saxony eastern Germany.
While a town along the Elbe in Lower Saxony, northern Germany, has a stone carved with:
Geht dieser Stein unter, wird das Leben wieder bunter.
If this stone goes under, life will become more colourful again.
Photo credit: Hungersteine bei Leckwitz, Murkel267, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Pay attention, today is a wonderful day! May you be blessed with that rare, beautiful feeling of being totally inspired yet deeply at ease - as if you just know profoundly good news is on its way.
