It's funny that AI systems are all still pretty bad at elementary school arithmetic, but getting increasingly good at very high-end abstract math. That raises some big questions for the field of advanced math.

Nilay Patel — Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Sometimes nothing is very important. Obviously, nothing's been very important to me. I've written books about it, but in this case, nothing happening is the central feature of symmetry.

The Origins Podcast

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I just don't think there's any denying academics have decided they're no longer or academic institutions centers of excellence pursuing truth that they're engineers of a political orthodoxy. And that that political orthodoxy sometimes is very fragile and wants to accept a certain truth or pursuit of the truth as long as it aligns with the political orthodoxy that overwhelms 90 plus percent of the views of people who are drawn to academia.

The Prof G Pod

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