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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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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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