John Allen Paulos
@ja-paulos.bsky.social
Math prof, NYT bestselling author. Innumeracy, Math'n Reads Newspaper, others: https://johnallenpaulos.com/booksandreviews.html, columnist, ponderer
A marvelous piece Human intelligence will win out over artificial intelligence www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Human intelligence will win out over artificial intelligence
The more machines can do, the clearer it becomes what only human beings can provide.
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What does the world’s greatest living mathematician think of AI? medium.datadriveninvestor.com/what-does-th...
What does the world’s greatest living mathematician think of AI?
Photo by Bozhin Karaivanov on Unsplash
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Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solves 9 Erdős problems and proves 44 sequence conjectures
Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved 9 open Erdős problems and proved 44 OEIS conjectures using AI-driven formal verification, with implications for crypto security.
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1984 plus 42 years: Trump's Justice Department Scrubs Its Website Of News Releases About Jan. 6 Defendants Trump's Justice Department Scrubs Its Website Of News Releases About Jan. 6 Defendants www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump's Justice Department Scrubs Its Website Of News Releases About Jan. 6 Defendants
The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically rewrite the history of Jan. 6, 2021.
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Nice mention of how to maximize the probability of choosing the best of your possible romantic partners. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...
Opinion | The Nobel-Winning Psychologist Who Believed He Found the Secret to Happiness
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A parable: Psychopaths, Derek Parfit, Global Warming, and Discount Rates at 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...
Psychopaths, Derek Parfit, Global Warming, and Discount Rates - 3 Quarks Daily
by John Allen Paulos
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In a low key and gentlemanly way Charles' speech was a repudiation of most of Trump's policies.
There is something to Nixon's "Madman Theory." It can be helpful if your enemies believe you to be irrational sometimes. It's also a very dangerous strategy that can easily backfire.
Threatening to commit a war crime, even if it's not executed, is itself a war crime. 25th Amendment!
@RahmEmanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff and former mayor of Chicago, has an interesting suggestion on Hormuz: Declare the Strait of Hormuz to be open to everyone or to no one, and to that end close the other end so Iran can't sell its oil and will this have more incentive to open the strait.
Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings
