Silicon Reckoner
Michael HarrisWhat computers will do for, or to, mathematics and mathematicians
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Questions to ask AI boosters
From the Salt Lake Tribune, May 4, 2026: protesting a proposed data center at the Box Elder County Commission
AI companies and their models will follow one rule before all others: they will seek to maximise returns for their shareholders...
Who speaks for mathematics?
From the website https://www.pause-ai.de/appell#zitate
A handful of journalists around the world are responsible for extracting publishable copy from the blizzard of press releases about the latest Milestones™ achieved in the machine’s str...
Quanta smashes the Overton window
Attila the Hun, in the style of Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, leading a troop of dinosaurs, and holding a banner reading “The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived.” Produced in 10 seconds by Stable Diffusion
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Notes from the front
Announcement at this site. I have no idea how those platonic solids are supposed to represent the workshop, but that’s the illustration chosen by the organizers, or by their robots.
Anyone who hopes to write a serious scholarly report on t...
Don't "like" this essay!
A “like” on Facebook is estimated at between $0.0005 (a value calculated by a downward auction mechanism between a social platform and an ad sales platforms), $0.004 (if you buy 1100 likes for less than $5 on a click farm platform), and $...
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Number theorist, Columbia University professor, still active in Paris, author of Mathematics without Apologies.
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