Der Herr Warum
@adairneto.bsky.social
Maths PhD student. Interested in free software, cycling, and reading old books.
The whole entire world is a very narrow bridge, but the main thing is to recall, is to have no fear at all.
https://adairneto.github.io/
The whole entire world is a very narrow bridge, but the main thing is to recall, is to have no fear at all.
https://adairneto.github.io/
> We should view generative AI in the form of large language models not “primarily as intelligent agents, but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated”.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
www.theverge.com
October 6, 2026 at 7:46 AM
> We should view generative AI in the form of large language models not “primarily as intelligent agents, but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated”.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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"When I was a postdoc, I went to the library once and it felt like a traumatic experience. I decided, 'I’m never going back to the library.' There was no point." #MathSky #LLM
I can't believe I just read that. I feel embarrassed.
www.ams.org/journals/not...
I can't believe I just read that. I feel embarrassed.
www.ams.org/journals/not...
www.ams.org
October 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
"When I was a postdoc, I went to the library once and it felt like a traumatic experience. I decided, 'I’m never going back to the library.' There was no point." #MathSky #LLM
I can't believe I just read that. I feel embarrassed.
www.ams.org/journals/not...
I can't believe I just read that. I feel embarrassed.
www.ams.org/journals/not...
Finally a piece mentioning The Association for Human Mathematics
www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en...
www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en...
Is AI the End of Math As We Know It? | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians are facing the sudden shift with grief, anger, and a desperate search for fresh ideas: “If we don’t adapt, there’s just no more math in 50 years.”
www.quantamagazine.org
October 6, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Finally a piece mentioning The Association for Human Mathematics
www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en...
www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en...
The secret to surviving a PhD is having a 'secret PhD' in which you do whatever the hell you fancy.
(I guess, haven't finished yet)
(I guess, haven't finished yet)
October 6, 2026 at 5:25 AM
The secret to surviving a PhD is having a 'secret PhD' in which you do whatever the hell you fancy.
(I guess, haven't finished yet)
(I guess, haven't finished yet)
’Digesting’ AI-generated proofs is so bloody demoralising. I’d rather leave academia.
October 5, 2026 at 9:25 PM
’Digesting’ AI-generated proofs is so bloody demoralising. I’d rather leave academia.
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I believe these are the main sociological reasons why people use GenAI.
From a “psychological” perspective, I believe people use it because they feel that they are not enough: that they are not capable enough, that they need this one more feature… This of course has a snowball effect.
From a “psychological” perspective, I believe people use it because they feel that they are not enough: that they are not capable enough, that they need this one more feature… This of course has a snowball effect.
It's not just in academia: Lack of curiosity and narrow extractivist thinking is everywhere, even among people who formerly cared but are ground down by worry, exhaustion, and exploitation. It's like a planetary scale auto immune disease. Gaia has a connective tissue disorder and chronic depression.
October 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
I believe these are the main sociological reasons why people use GenAI.
From a “psychological” perspective, I believe people use it because they feel that they are not enough: that they are not capable enough, that they need this one more feature… This of course has a snowball effect.
From a “psychological” perspective, I believe people use it because they feel that they are not enough: that they are not capable enough, that they need this one more feature… This of course has a snowball effect.
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- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.
September 25, 2026 at 6:25 PM
- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.
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As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore.
September 25, 2026 at 6:14 PM
As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore.
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“The AI Pascal’s Wager”
https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html
> On the other hand, if you refuse AI-generated contributions to your project right now, the worst very hypothetical regret you could ever have is "I should probably have done it sooner".
https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html
> On the other hand, if you refuse AI-generated contributions to your project right now, the worst very hypothetical regret you could ever have is "I should probably have done it sooner".
The AI Pascal’s Wager
The AI Pascal’s Wager par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
ploum.net
October 1, 2026 at 9:31 AM
“The AI Pascal’s Wager”
https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html
> On the other hand, if you refuse AI-generated contributions to your project right now, the worst very hypothetical regret you could ever have is "I should probably have done it sooner".
https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html
> On the other hand, if you refuse AI-generated contributions to your project right now, the worst very hypothetical regret you could ever have is "I should probably have done it sooner".
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i reflected on my failings as an engineering leader integrating AI into my team (before i quit it entirely);
the result is beware: chronicling over 30 real risks from first-hand experience of using LLMs on a software team
brettcodes.com/beware/
the result is beware: chronicling over 30 real risks from first-hand experience of using LLMs on a software team
brettcodes.com/beware/
Beware: Real risks of using AI as a software dev team
An extensive list chronicling the risks associated with software development teams leaning hard into AI-generated code and related tooling.
brettcodes.com
September 30, 2026 at 12:20 PM
i reflected on my failings as an engineering leader integrating AI into my team (before i quit it entirely);
the result is beware: chronicling over 30 real risks from first-hand experience of using LLMs on a software team
brettcodes.com/beware/
the result is beware: chronicling over 30 real risks from first-hand experience of using LLMs on a software team
brettcodes.com/beware/
"I do not want the frictionless world that the political project of generative AI promises."
-choosing friction, by @phirephoenix.com
phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10...
-choosing friction, by @phirephoenix.com
phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10...
choosing friction
In 2018, legal scholar Tim Wu wrote in the New York Times that: Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all desti...
phirephoenix.com
September 30, 2026 at 10:00 AM
"I do not want the frictionless world that the political project of generative AI promises."
-choosing friction, by @phirephoenix.com
phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10...
-choosing friction, by @phirephoenix.com
phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10...
> Generative AI tools lead to a loss of critical thinking, creativity, and skill. Building skills and craft takes time and effort. It takes difficulty; short-circuiting that with generative AI tools makes it harder to become a creative and thoughtful person.
sboots.ca/2026/03/11/g...
sboots.ca/2026/03/11/g...
Generative AI vegetarianism
Hello, it’s me: I’m a generative AI vegetarian. The tech industry is convinced this is the future; I don’t want any of it, full stop. Why choose generative AI vegetarianism? Just like real-life veget...
sboots.ca
September 30, 2026 at 9:15 AM
> Generative AI tools lead to a loss of critical thinking, creativity, and skill. Building skills and craft takes time and effort. It takes difficulty; short-circuiting that with generative AI tools makes it harder to become a creative and thoughtful person.
sboots.ca/2026/03/11/g...
sboots.ca/2026/03/11/g...
I've recently finished Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris. Here are some quotes (mostly about mathematics).
September 30, 2026 at 4:27 AM
I've recently finished Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris. Here are some quotes (mostly about mathematics).
From Brent Yorgey's advice to students
ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/fore...
ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/fore...
September 30, 2026 at 3:42 AM
From Brent Yorgey's advice to students
ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/fore...
ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/fore...
David Foster Wallace on TV, but very much on spot about AI:
"I think one of the reasons that I feel empty after watching a lot of TV, and one of the things that makes TV seductive, is that it gives the illusion of relationships with people. [...]
"I think one of the reasons that I feel empty after watching a lot of TV, and one of the things that makes TV seductive, is that it gives the illusion of relationships with people. [...]
September 25, 2026 at 2:30 AM
David Foster Wallace on TV, but very much on spot about AI:
"I think one of the reasons that I feel empty after watching a lot of TV, and one of the things that makes TV seductive, is that it gives the illusion of relationships with people. [...]
"I think one of the reasons that I feel empty after watching a lot of TV, and one of the things that makes TV seductive, is that it gives the illusion of relationships with people. [...]
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they're saying the AI can do math and science again, so it's time to reread Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, a lovely articulation of the social work of assembling understanding, i.e., the best reason to tackle hard problems. www.ams.org/journals/bul...
September 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
they're saying the AI can do math and science again, so it's time to reread Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, a lovely articulation of the social work of assembling understanding, i.e., the best reason to tackle hard problems. www.ams.org/journals/bul...
Grothendieck:
'We therefore seem to be approaching the risk of eradication, within each individual, of not only the memory of work carried out close to the source, of a “feminine” nature [...]
'We therefore seem to be approaching the risk of eradication, within each individual, of not only the memory of work carried out close to the source, of a “feminine” nature [...]
September 22, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Grothendieck:
'We therefore seem to be approaching the risk of eradication, within each individual, of not only the memory of work carried out close to the source, of a “feminine” nature [...]
'We therefore seem to be approaching the risk of eradication, within each individual, of not only the memory of work carried out close to the source, of a “feminine” nature [...]
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when ai leaves u behind
September 20, 2026 at 11:37 AM
when ai leaves u behind
