Theoretical Physics is Applied Mathematics.  Pure Math people tend to look down on them.  There's an informal ranking system you find in Math departments for how the Math people look at everyone else.  Below the Physics people are the Chemists, then Meteorologists, Geologists, Engineers, Economists, Psychologists & Sociologists.  Depends on how much and how difficult the Math is you need to really grasp the subject.

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Quote from: K-Dog on Sep 28, 2026, 07:16 AM

QuoteThe Tech Bros want to build a wall that will give  them a monopoly over AI.  Essentially, they'll try to make it necessary to have a license to develop AI and prevent small companies or individuals from developing their own models using "Safety" as the excuse.

Slowing things down lets them put a tire patch on the about to burst bubble too.  A band-Aid over the bleeding.  Slow things down.

I am going to have our private AI do a web search about this later.  Right now the video cards are summarizing articles.  I'll post the results.

I'm reporting progress. 

The video cards finished summarizing, and I spent the time improving the research tool I have built that autonomously surfs the web and generates a report.  It takes notes as it goes for the final report.  Currently an article is being read about the agents escaping guardrails at Hugging Face.  As my agent works it navigates in it's own browser.


So the model I downloaded earlier today from Hugging Face to act as a web surfing agent is reading this article about Hugging Face right now.  Or was, now the window switched.  Now it is showing this.



I have no idea how long this is going to take.  How many rabbit holes my agent is going to go down.

Quote from: K-Dog on Sep 28, 2026, 06:15 PMThere is math behind it.  Fine then, I'll bore myself with it.  Gravity in this case is math.

I'll go with gravity can be described by math, but it isn't math. I'd throw that one in the physics category. I got this great piece of advice from a PhD Air Force Academy physics professor.

There are only two things that matter in the Universe, one is the laws of physics, as they are the rules of the game. The second is the will of man. We call that "economics".

The Seneca effect is an interesting idea. When Ugo and I discussed it he was willing to admit that it certainly wasn't a "end of world" nonsense scenario that some had tried to twist it into, and on Facebook said he might look into researching the far side of other examples to see what he could see.

I will stand by the comment that he shouldn't have linked it to Hubbert's normal looking distribution, as neither Ugo, nor Hubbert, were familiar with discovery process modeling, an idea that came along in print a few years after Hubbert's 1956 work. Arps and Roberts, if memory serves. 1958. Hubbert has an excuse as to why, Ugo should have done better research. His lack of education in the field in question was probably a significant handicap.

Another slow-motion train wreck.  Sounds like barring some AI Agent going rogue and crashing the Bloomberg terminals, the Tech Bros will be able to juggle the books for at least the next couple of years before the RED INK starts spilling financial blood like Palestinian kids on the bizness end of an Israeli Uzi in the Gaza Strip.  Main question is just how big they can blow this bubble before it pops?



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There is math behind it.  Fine then, I'll bore myself with it.  Gravity in this case is math.

Quote from: K-Dog on Sep 28, 2026, 12:40 PMWith Trump gone the rate of decay slows, unless his contract with Satan keeps him around long enough for America to go over the Seneca cliff.  That probably is the case.

It is unfortunate that Ugo had to discredit himself, revolving around the peak oil world. I was reading through the Wiki description of his Seneca idea, which sounds quite reasonable. Fortunately he didn't try to drop any math into it, unfortunate that the Wiki goes on to mention the Hubbert curve in relation to his. By itself that could give someone enough of a clue to discount his concept.

With Trump gone the rate of decay slows, unless his contract with Satan keeps him around long enough for America to go over the Seneca cliff.  That probably is the case.

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QuoteThe Tech Bros want to build a wall that will give  them a monopoly over AI.  Essentially, they'll try to make it necessary to have a license to develop AI and prevent small companies or individuals from developing their own models using "Safety" as the excuse.

Slowing things down lets them put a tire patch on the about to burst bubble too.  A band-Aid over the bleeding.  Slow things down.

I am going to have our private AI do a web search about this later.  Right now the video cards are summarizing articles.  I'll post the results.

Cui Bono?  Here's the REAL reason behind the AI Safety Panic.  The Tech Bros want to build a wall that will give  them a monopoly over AI.  Essentially, they'll try to make it necessary to have a license to develop AI and prevent small companies or individuals from developing their own models using "Safety" as the excuse.  This insures that they can use a Rentier structure for their Tokens and keep the financial model solvent enough to pay off the $Trillions$ in debt they have already accumulated on the build out.

The problem of course is that it would be nearly impossible to police this, and unless every country in the world agrees to it, developers will just go wherever they have the most freedom, or they'll work on it in secret.  It might prevent unlicensed models from being used in a profit making venture selling Tokens to use the unlicensed model, but if you just use it for yourself it would be hard to stop.  Sort of like Kiddie Porn, despite all the regulations there still will be plenty of illegal AI available on the Dark Net.

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