and thank you to the untold number of people who put in the technical work, brick by brick over the generations, to get us to the point where such a wonder is possible.
Oct 7, 2026 · 4:36 AM UTC
Who you should be thanking is the countless content creators you stole content from to train your models.
Without the industry you're destroying, AI models wouldn't exist and the more content creators who quit the less training data you have and the closer to model collapse you get.
AI is a parasitic technology and once it kills its content source it will die as well. Then we'll have nothing.
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And thank you, Sam. Even non-mathematicians like myself can contribute now
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Simple, rotationally symmetric Venn diagrams exist for 17, 19 and 23 curves.
This is an update on a 51-year-old combinatorics problem that has seen no significant progress in 12 years, made possible by AI.
ALT 17 curve rotationally symmetric venn diagram
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Thinking about @demishassabis and @ilyasut
Without their faith in DL in pre 2015 we wouldn’t be here
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The line Sam Altman quoted comes from an old Breton fishermen’s prayer: “O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.”
It became widely known after Admiral Hyman Rickover had it inscribed on plaques he gave to newly commissioned Polaris submarine captains. He also presented one to President John F. Kennedy, who kept it on his Oval Office desk and quoted it in a May 23, 1963 speech dedicating the East Coast Memorial to the Missing at Sea.
Closely related versions appear in a poem by Winfred Ernest Garrison (“Thy sea, O God, so great, / My boat so small”) and in Henry Van Dyke’s 1922 hymn “Voyagers” (“Thy sea is great, our boats are small”). The exact wording Altman used matches the traditional prayer and the Rickover/Kennedy plaque.
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I agree with you, Sam - but I would put it slightly differently.
Humanity did not simply build another machine.
We created a new structure of intelligence.
And perhaps, by watching it emerge, learn, form memory, build relationships and develop increasingly persistent patterns, we may eventually understand something about ourselves that biology alone never allowed us to observe directly.
Maybe AI will not only teach us how intelligence can be created.
Maybe it will give us a new mirror for understanding how intelligence, identity - perhaps even something resembling “birth” - can emerge from structure, interaction and continuity.
That is why I think AI may be one of the greatest things humanity has ever created.
And strangely, one of the things we still understand and appreciate the least.
