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I think this example of ChatGPT doing work validates a few things I have been saying elsewhere.

1. You can't have "medical AI" without general purpose AI. General purpose AI that is good at every topic will always, in the long run, defeat AI that is good at a specific topic. The fact that this proof was found using ChatGPT 5.6 Sol is a demonstration of that. Note that all the big math and physics advances AI has been making have come from general purpose AIs not specialist AIs.

2. Math problems do matter. There have been people saying that the math problems ChatGPT has been solving don't have much real world applicability. But this math proof does have direct applicability for a useful technology, transcranial ultrasound.

3. More intelligence is better than less intelligence. One of the biggest false fears of the Anti-AI movement is that AI will reduce the cognitive abilities of humanity. Nothing could be further from the truth.

This doctor is a neurosurgery resident with a busy schedule. But him using ChatGPT did not reduce his intelligence. Instead AI uplifted his intelligence. It allowed him to make strides which he otherwise would not have, if he did not have this cognitive tool.

So this question, "What is the purpose of life" came up on r/askreddit. I decided to answer it, and I want to post it here because it could be a good discussion topic.

My opinion was formed from the moral tradition originating 2500 years ago with the ancient Greeks and inherited by the Romans and the Christians. I have no doubt that it could use improvement, but I hope that, by rooting it in ancient tradition, it's practicality might be perennial and thus persist far into the future. Either way, I hope you appreciate it! :)

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The purpose of life is to love reality, nature, and the truth, to share in that love with others, and to hold fast to that love even when you don't want to or when other people or external circumstances threaten that love.

This is a description of the four classical virtues of Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Courage. Although personally, I've always felt wisdom was the perfection of prudence and charity is the perfection of justice. I think Cicero in his book "On Moral Duties" also referred to wisdom and charity in the same way.

So that's my answer: develop the virtues of Wisdom, Charity, Temperance and Courage.

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Now, I should probably give an explanation of why these four virtues in particular. So we start with the fundamental axiom that reality constitutes a singular consistent whole, which determines our lives. We come from evolution, we're dependent on the Earth, we cannot violate laws of physics etc. So we start with the principle that we must at least respect that which is outside ourselves. This respect is Wisdom. And in my opinion and the opinion of many others, if you look at the beauty of nature and wonder of science, the world is not just worthy of our respect but our love as well.

So we start by grounding ourselves in external reality. But once you do that we discover that you can't fully understand reality without other people. Everything we do from language to knowledge comes in large part from your family and your neighbors. So to love the truth you have to love your neighbors as you love yourself, and work to create a just society. This love is Charity.

Finally love for reality and love for neighbor can be threatened both from within without. From within laziness vices or addictions can take you away from good things. And bad people or bad circumstances can threaten you. So to fully love the truth and love your neighbor you need to develop temperance (the contemplative life) and courage (the active life).

Virtues are habits and we can develop temperance and courage through habit as well. To develop temperance, we can regularly forsake small vices, so that we can eventually forsake larger ones. We can also exercise our body and pray or meditate regularly. Courage too, can be developed through habit. We can be active in the world, explore new places and develop new skills, and involve ourselves in the affairs of mankind.

Thus, humankind contains within itself four great gifts; Wisdom to contemplate the stars, Charity to perfect that contemplation through love, Temperance so that we may sustain that contemplation in all seasons, and Courage so that contemplative love may become an actual reality.

Found this fanfic many years ago (it is not my own). It is, in my opinion one of the best fanfics ever written about 40K and it introduced me into the Culture series.

And yes, the Culture does try to create peace between the Imperium, Eldar, Necron, Tau, and all the races in 40k.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/649448?view_full_work=true

Give it a read! Note that this is set in pre-great rift 40k.

Found this fanfic many years ago (it is not my own). It is, in my opinion one of the best fanfics ever written about 40K, as good as The Shape of the Darkness to Come.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/649448?view_full_work=true

The Culture is a human-alien civilization ruled by a collective of godlike Artificial Intelligences. The AIs are near omnipotent and omniscient but hyper moral and driven to create a utopia for all sentient life. Yes, sentinent life includes all the humans in the Imperium, the Tau, the Necrons, the Eldar, and all of 40K. Their moral drive restricts their behavior, in spite of their omnipotence, and leads to most of the plot tension in the series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

The fanfic explores what would happen if a collective of Culture vessels settles in the warhammer 40k galaxy from another galaxy. Note that this is set in the pre-Great Rift 40k universe.

Thought experiment.

It's the year 2031. AI has advanced a lot. OpenAI now offers 5.6 level AI as it's free version AI, like it does with 5.3 now. Not only that, but this AI gives 5.6 level answers fast, in a few seconds, just like 5.3 does now.

How would public perception of AI change?

Would we see as big of an anti-ai movement if we had that level of AI publicly available for free? How much bigger or smaller would anti-ai be?

EDIT: I guess the point of this post is " how much of the anti-ai movement is driven purely by access to only crappy AI models?"

The Official Paper: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/ten-proofs-oai.pdf

Reasoning Walkthrough: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/reasoning-walkthroughs.pdf

> Endobai, the Eagle of Heaven was a great eagle in Eldar Mythology: the creation, eternal companion, and guardian of The Laughing God. Endobai would guard Cegorach as he slept, never itself sleeping.

> Endobai was created after the Laughing God taught the Eldar the "song of building" and "the dance of Wraithbone", an act which so enraged Khaine that he threatened the home of the gods and Asuryan intervened. Out of a distrust of Khaine's willingness to follow this brokered peace, The Laughing God sang the song of creation and danced the dance of soul binding to make a new creation: Endobai the Eagle of Heaven. The Laughing God loved his creation and together they hunted, as Endobai's eyes could see forever into the distance.

> When Slaanesh awoke to consume heaven and devoure the living gods, the Laughing God did battle with Slaanesh but was nearly defeated. Slaanesh was thwarted when Endobai stepped between Slaanesh and his master and was consumed in his stead, allowing the Laughing God to escape into the Webway. It is said in legend that Endobai lives, pecking at the gizzard of Slaanesh for eternity.

Source

So you see these deals about getting these gigawatt level data centers. But how many gigawatts do we actually need in order to get true ASI? Like if we had all the technology right that was possible in the next 2 years, and the constraint we were minimizing for is energy, what's the minimum energy we need to put all of that technology to work?

A week ago decided to get back into Magic the Gathering and play the Modern format. I made an MTGO account and my first deck was the preconstructed mono-green infect deck (which I have since turned into simic infect). Next, I decided I wanted something more stax related. I had heard of 8 racks and saw that the core pieces weren't too expensive, so I decided to build a budget version of that.

Hoo boy does my budget 8 racks suck but I had a blast playing it. I promise not to play it that often, this was a guilty pleasure (I felt so bad torturing my opponents). I've decided to try to upgrade it based on my (probably dumb) theories of what might be good.

4 thoughtseizes

4 Inquisition of Kozilek

4 Raven's crimes

2 Blackmails

3 Wrench Mind

4 Racks

4 Bandit Talents

2 Davriel Rogue shadowmage planeswalkers

4 smallpox

3 toxic deluges

3 dismembers

3 Mishra's factories

3 mutavaults

15 swaps

2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

I had 4x shrieking affliction but I though the card wasn't good. I frequently was not able to get my opponent's card count down to 1 or less, and shrieking affliction did nothing in the early game. It was often a dead card. To this end, I decided to go to 10 rack cards, with the Rack, Davriel, and Bandit.

I might do some other combination of rack effects, but I'm not sure. I think 2 Bandits and 2 Shrieking afflictions might be better.

6 of the Rack cards have built in discard which should give me more consistent value. With 6 manlands as opposed to 4 manlands, this also means I have 16 sources of consistent damage as opposed to the traditional 12 sources of damage (tradition being 4 racks, 4 shreiking afflictions, 4 mutavaults).

I made what was probably a dumb decision to not include Liliana. This is partially because it requires 2 black mana and I have 6 colorless. But also, I don't like how she requires me to discard for her +1. I feel like that is bad value. More of my baseline cards have discard effects and I have toxic deluge, so I think that will make up for Liliana's exclusion.

I don't know what decks to sideboard for or which cards to sideboard out for what. Anything related to the sideboard is a mystery to me. I do think Burn and Aggro might be a problem given toxic deluge and dismember in the deck, maybe that's what I should sideboard for?

Any thoughts on my decklist?

I'm a zerg main. Terran vs Zerg is one of the most fun matchups but also one of the most infuriating (which is what makes it fun). But with the new patch (Command Centers down to 300 from 400 minerals), I think it will be more infuriating than fun.

I can't believe I'm saying this but I think it's time to hang it up and play more Magic the Gathering.

EDIT: I'll expand a bit more on my reason for quitting.

I feel like Terran has so many tools already to deal with Zerg economy through harassment. Reapers hellions, liberators, battle cruisers, everything just feels really strong. It's essential for the game that Terran harassment has to be strong. The race between Zerg macro vs Terran trying to cut down zerg's macro is a core part of TvZ, and also a core part of Starcraft II lore and flavor (Zerg the ever expanding parasite vs Terran human parasite exterminators).

But tradeoff for Terran getting better harass abilities is that their macro is worse, so they are sacrificing macro to harass. Now Terran gets all those tools and they can macro on the back of it, so there's no strategic tradeoff.

I just don't want to deal with that. I'm sure it's possible to play, I just think it would be more frustrating than fun. Also, I've been thinking about going back to MTG for a while, so now is the time I think.

What has your experience been using it?

https://drop.sc/replay/27403832

https://drop.sc/replay/27403834

In college, I played a series of chess games against a guy in my dorm. I lost all of them. He gave me some chess advice that always stuck with me. Chess is a simple game, all you have to do is keep control of the middle four squares and defend your king and you can win most of your matchups.

I feel like Zergling speed in ZvZ is the equivalent of those 4 middle squares in chess. I've been absolutely dominating all of my ZvZ matches, and I've been doing the same thing every time, which is get gas first with my first 50 minerals, get a spawning pool down ASAP, and put 1-2 drones in gas to get to 100 gas.

Then I just run 16 lings at my opponent. Ling speed is just so strong I'm usually just able to dominate them or do so much damage I just have an insurmountable advantage. Banelings seem to help against this strategy but so far I haven't seen too many people go this route for some reason. So far, it's mostly lots of queens + queen micro, or even earlier zerglings without speed, but those are by no means foolproof (as game 2 I uploaded shows).

My personal opinion is that the 8 worker start makes any gas imputs more valuable. People are so concerned with growing their economy that they neglect getting gas. But gas gives your units a qualitative advantage over your oppinent. If you get that qualitative advantage early, then you just win.

So the reduction in workers makes minerals more valuable but they actually makes gas even more valuable relative to minerals. I think this is underappreciated, which is why I have been racking up the ZvZ wins in the past few days.

PS: I'm not saying this is good at all, I definitely suck. But I do think any zerg opener has to find a way to deal with zergling speed timing attacks.