Silicon Reckoner
Michael HarrisWhat computers will do for, or to, mathematics and mathematicians
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Quick clarification on authorship
From the website of the Association for Computing Machinery
My most recent post makes the case that the Leiden Declaration’s position that “affirm[s] the humanity of authorship” is a political statement, and not a strict logical deduction...
Mathematics is not rational, really!
…they’re, what, a ten-million-neuron network hooked up to a syntax engine and a crappy knowledge base? What kind of basis for intelligence is that?
… That’s what they’ll say about you, Bob.
(Charles Stross, Accelerando)
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This year's NASEM meeting
Tony Blair did describe globalisation as a process as inexorable as the weather, and that is also how neoliberals described the economy – a thing that happened to you.
(Zoe Williams, The Guardian, July 23, 2026)
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Two modest proposals
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The first modest proposal (with apologies to SDM)
July is around the corner, the afternoons are scorching but the fall semester...
"there's this like massive exogenous force" haunting mathematics
From Dagens ETC, June 12, 2026, p. 34
Suppose you invited Sam Altman to read your children a bedtime story. Altman would probably tell them that Goldilocks and the Three Bears is in fact a prescient parable about AI regulation:
- “Papa...
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Number theorist, Columbia University professor, still active in Paris, author of Mathematics without Apologies.
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