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Jim Propp once wrote,

I asked ChatGPT, the modern apotheosis of unjustified self-confidence, to prove that .999… is less than 1. Its reply began “Here is a proof that .999… is less than 1.” It then proceeded to show (using familiar arguments) that .999… is equal to 1, before majestically concluding “But our goal was to show that .999… is less than 1. Hence the proof is complete.” This reply, as an example of brazen mathematical non sequitur, can scarcely be improved upon.

brb, saving copies of physics and math books before they go offline

Michael Keaton bursts out of a grave It's sneer time!

Apparently the whole thing was a prank?

PhysicsForums was apparently deliberately corrupted with LLM content in old posts.

From the "flipping through LessWrong for entertainment" department:

What effect does LLM use have on the quality of people's thinking / knowledge?

• I'd expect a large positive effect from just making people more informed / enabling them to interpret things correctly / pointing out fallacies etc.

A WELL TRAINED AI can be a very useful tool.

No, it can't. Go away.

A necessary precondition for the Democrats to do anything is Democrats regaining the Senate, which pretty much requires winning a Senate seat in North Carolina, where the state supreme court is taking the attitude that no Democratic win is legitimate. So, yeah: There's basically no institutional way for this country to come back from where it has gone.

For the US to avoid collapse, the Democrats would have to sweep the board in multiple successive elections and be more unified and committed to deep reform than they ever have been.

I will pause for the laughter to fade.

So that's how to translate "Yo, this diet is for chumps" into Wikipedian.

Karl Bode comments:

I like how none of the reporting I've seen on this so far can be bothered to mention Softbank's multi-year, very obvious history of failures

I think I saw like one outlet mention it, and it was buried in the 18th paragraph