It is pretty obvious that having "a screen which optimizes itself to keep you hooked for hours while you still have a developing brain, and no previous generation had anything similiar" is not very comparable to being able to throw away paper and have scratchpad because paper became cheap.

And the claim that hippies are doing fine isn't well substantiated[0][1][2]. Maybe we shouldn't claim to have answers for what we don't and exercise caution. Alert but not anxious.

[0]: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002204267800800... ("70% abandoned deviance as a way of life" not sure what that exactly means)

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28008372/ ("... members with regular cannabis use and persistent dependence experienced downward socioeconomic mobility, more financial difficulties, workplace problems, and relationship conflict in early midlife.")

[2]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9552770/ ("long-term cannabis users show accelerated biological ageing in midlife and poorer health preparedness, financial preparedness, and social preparedness for old age.")

In the hippie generation, not everybody was a hippie. And most gave up on that way of life pretty quickly or were never fully immersed to begin with. I had a girlfriend who dressed like a hippie, had many "alternative" friends and loved new age stuff, but otherwise worked full time and was completely part of the system.

I'm not saying everybody will be fine. I'm saying humanity will be fine because we will figure out how to create a functional world despite the underlying culture like we've always done. Part of my argument is that every generation is full of people saying "this time is different because of XYZ".

Something I stumbled on while looking for why Odyysey recitals[0] which keep popping up recently sound "Sanskritty" The video style is quite ranty, and shows some clear frustration. But I did find my existing views challenged and found it interesting.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX4yuMN6pPI

You probably meant Homeric in general, not the Odyssey

I'll go ahead and assume you are from India. While all suicides do carry certain commanalities, the academic ones seem much more Indian. The meritocratic view perpetuated has caused generations of kids who's belief becomes that being academically well-off leads to better life outcomes.

The shame, and to a lesser extent guilt, associated with a possibility of not acheiving this goal is often too hard to handle that they give up. 4 kids dead this way last year in my school, 2 more so far.

Torment run would be becoming a masochist to cope. The comment likely refers to the ability in being able to identify the alternatives, and being flexible.

Torment run would be slogging under the student's adviser, the other option being reporting him, or switching advisers, or any other option life presents.

Yes, you are right. If someone reaches a point where they feel that their situation is so bad that they have to die because of it, then reporting the adviser, switching advisers, escaping to another place, completely starting a new life, or whatever other option life presents could potentially make their life much better, and in some cases even be life-changing. I mean, what worse could happen by trying these options than ending your life? If someone has the courage to make such a drastic decision as ending their life, you could also help them muster the courage to completely restart their life instead.

And the other an appeal to tradition. There was only one Gauss to scoop and focusing on him misses the larger math culture which Terry might be aware of, where most trust others to not scoop.

And if any mathematician's AI usage on a problem leads to scooping, the volume of agents involved gives them a huge advantage which could prompt mathematicians to not use LLMs.

Though you can say Terry's claim is a slippery slope.

If not, someone is a native in LLMese. Conveys little about what it actually is, or connected to how Delta works and is mostly talking about some abstract metaphoric relation. I remember some article on how LLMs throw in identifiers without much understanding of the indetified, other than its similiarity to another thing in text (methaphoric speech).

Have you read Nelson?

> If too many people can’t make a living anymore the system is going to change.

They seem to have not yet come to believe the "is" part.

The posted one also removes a link to the original author's Google scholar page.

My bad, HN doesn't allow editing after an hour of posting

The backdoor(sic) is to delete and repost as you wipe the egg off your face.

The CPU is not the most used vector, the firmware is.

My bad, but I don't see an edit option anymore.