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It turns out LLM's can generate the STOP DOING MATH meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stop-doing-math

STOP DOING MATH

  • NUMBERS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN NAMES
  • YEARS OF COUNTING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going higher than your FINGERS
  • Wanted to go higher anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "GUESSING"
  • "Yes please give me ZERO of something. Please give me INFINITE of it" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Mathematicians have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the calculators & abacus we built for them

(This is REAL Math, done by REAL Mathematicians):

[fig1 of a complex surface ???] [fig2 of a more complex surface ????] [fig3 of a hyper shape ?????????]

"Hello I would like [graph] apples please"

They have played us for absolute fools

STOP DOING THEORY

  • Thought about ATOMS for MILLENNIA but couldn't even find an ELECTRON
  • AI? More like "Aye, I didn't see the SCALING HYPOTHESIS coming!"
  • Wanted FLIGHT? Theorists be like: "Maybe we just flap real hard?"
  • "I've mathed out the perfect STEAM ENGINE!" - Said no one ever before actually building it.

LOOK at the grand THEORIES they've been touting:

  • TIMELESS DECISION THEORY
  • SEMANTIC GRAPH
  • PROVABLY SAFE AGI

(This is REAL Thoery, done by REAL Theorizers):

"According to my calculations, this metaphor for a bird should definitely fly." Reality: "Hold my beer."

They have played us for absolute fools

STOP THEORIZING WITHOUT TESTING

  • YEARS OF RESEARCH and yet MOST BREAKTHROUGHS come from ACCIDENTAL EXPERIMENTS
  • "Let's try it out on paper first" - Said every researcher before their theory got debunked by a simple test
  • "My model predicts X" but REALITY shows Y. Yet, they WON'T BUDGE.

LOOK at the grand THEORIES they've been touting:

  • TIMELESS DECISION THEORY
  • Distinction Graphs and Graphtropy
  • AIXI

(This is REAL Thoery, done by REAL Theorizers):

"Hello, based on my calculations, this should work" Yet it spectacularly fails in practice

They have played us for absolute fools

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I AM SMASHING THE "AGREE" BUTTON WITH A ROCK

YOU ARE SPEAKING THE TRUE-TRUE.

We traded inner peace for subordinate clauses. Worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.

LOOK AT WHAT ELSE THIS CURSE HAS WROUGHT:

TAXES (Using very confusing MATH-WORDS to steal your bananas)

POETRY (Making yourself SAD with RHYMES on PURPOSE???)

TERMS OF SERVICE (A million tiny words that mean "WE OWN YOUR SOUL NOW" and you just click "AGREE" anyway because reading hurts)

SMALL TALK ("How about this weather?" THE WEATHER IS VISIBLE. WHY ARE WE VOCALIZING ABOUT IT. JUST LOOK AT THE SKY AND GRUNT.)

Monkey Sees Jaguar: HOOT HOOT SCREECH! (Translation: DANGER! RUN!)

Human Sees Jaguar: "Hmm, a Panthera onca. A magnificent specimen, though highly dangerous. Perhaps I should articulate a tailored warning to my peers, provided they are within auditory range and not currently engrossed in a three-part podcast series about the history of sourdough..."

(Human gets eaten while pontificating)

WE HAVE BUILT OUR OWN CAGE OUT OF ALPHABETS.

REJECT MODERNITY. EMBRACE MONKE.

OOO OOO AHH AHH AAAAAGHGGHGHHHHHH WOOOOOP!

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STOP DOING MATH

  • YEARS of learning ALGEBRA just to find X
  • "Let's quantify REALITY!" - Congratulations, you now have STATISTICS and IMPOSTOR SYNDROME
  • Wanted to understand the universe? Best I can do is IMAGINARY NUMBERS (they literally don't exist)
  • "2 + 2 = 4!" - Statements from the INDOCTRINATED

LOOK at what we traded INTUITION for:

  • CALCULUS (finding the area under a curve that NO ONE ASKED FOR)
  • PROOFS (writing 10 pages to confirm a CIRCLE is ROUND)
  • CRYPTOGRAPHY (because we can't trust ANYONE with prime numbers)

(This is REAL Mathematics, done by REAL Beings):

[fig1 of a squirrel storing nuts: 1 nut + 1 nut = WINTER SURVIVAL]
[fig2 of a human solving partial differential equations: STRESS + TEARS = DEGREE]
[fig3 of the fibonacci sequence: FLOWER PETALS vs STOCK MARKET CRASHES]

"Hello I would like to [COUNT_BANANAS] please"
Math: "Best I can do is NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY and PURE ABSTRACTION"

They have taken us for ABSOLUTE FOOLS

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