💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 12hregarding the ire of the mathematicians: An annoying thing about AI is that it allows low-effort entry into things for people with not only little knowledge, but little genuine interest & skin-in-the-game. Can debate the functional issues, risks, etc. but prima facie (1/2) 100
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 20hEven if Mathematicians are still needed and they find a way to productively work with AI to produce results, it might not be rewarding in the same way to them in this new form. (4/4) 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 20hThis makes them less like e.g. a software engineer who is more interested in the output of labor (not saying this characterizes all SWEs obviously) and can more easily see AI as a tool for accelerating output rather than a threat per se. (3/4) 100
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 20hMaybe some merely feel threatened in terms of their job or social capital, but I feel like for a lot (& maybe I'm being naive here!), they genuinely like doing math and see it more-so as an art. (2/4) 100
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 20hI think their ire/sorrow is justified even if their response if wrong -- but I think it's understandable given that their world got abruptly rug-pulled & I don't think ppl ever respond soberly to such an event. (1/4) 100
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 20hAs things accelerate more & more, so will nostalgia for the increasingly recent past -- "recent" being chronological, not kairological 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 10/10/2026back at the movies -- snuck in a cocktail, 🅱️🅱️‼️ 🍸📽️🍿 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 08/10/2026if a lot of humanities academics were forced to be honest, many would have to admit that they're just aiming to learn how to create better steelman accounts of their priors and more devastating strawmen for their enemies (who were determined beforehand). 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 08/10/2026of it "stealing" human work or creative endeavors, etc. (2/2) 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A lot of the biggest AI-lovers and haters converge on dismissing any argument that it is anything but another tool -- the former to justify getting their unlimited supply & use of their toys, and the latter to deny there's anything special about it & downplay the risks (1/2) 100
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Can imagine an atmospheric drone sound intensifying as the camera zooms-in/pans over it before a scene cut. 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There is this early depiction of Christ (one of the earliest) that is essentially just flippant bathroom graffiti chud trash-talk -- but with the donkey-head, I can totally see it being used in like an a24-esque art-house horror film as part of some satanic ritual. 100
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 06/10/2026have to go through a training course on how to find alternative ways to reach-out to students because lots of students no longer use their school email. Interesting conundrum. 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Autumn is my second favorite season, but I never appreciate the first few weeks properly as I’m still in mourning the death of summer 😞 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 03/10/2026once again, I have had my ass beat by the weekend. smdh 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 02/10/2026overtime, the American NE, Rocky mtn. states, and pacific NW have gone down in my relative rankings while the SE, SW, and some of the MW, Great Plains states, and CA have gone up. 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 02/10/2026those people who stand outside places & accost folks for whatever organization or “cause” prey on the polite & contribute to the erosion of social trust 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 02/10/2026do Irish Tescos still have those one euro 💶 baguettes? 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 02/10/2026you can usually tell by the sound, but I think it's an obligation to disclose when you have someone on speaker -- if you don’t tell someone, you forfeit any right to be angry or annoyed if they say something heinous, embarrassing, etc. 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 02/10/2026almost have a browser version of jedi academy running (🤞) 001
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Have to have too many social media and chat apps because friends & family are scattered across them like some digital curse-of-Babel & they all refuse to leave whatever platform they're familiar with. Smdh 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 01/10/2026lethal injection seems worse to me than the OG methods of execution -- something about making the body dysfunction from the “inside out” seems so much worse than violence coming from the “outside” to me. 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 01/10/2026drag me into some obscure argument you get into today -- I can help 001
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it’s going to be very important to be able to forgo social recognition in the coming future (or at least, need less of it) 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 28/09/2026and yearns to be at the forefront of stuff. (2/2) 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 28/09/2026there's a certain kind of policy person, cultural "commentator", etc. that, while admittedly smart, has little to no ability to anticipate where things are heading, partly because they have been unfortunately trained to mainly retroactively map where things have gone, (1/2) 100
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 28/09/2026what is your dumbest (or if you don't think it's actually dumb, most chud/dumb-coded) policy and/or cultural view? 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Randy Clarke is trying his hardest to make me hate public transit 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“The nearing nearness nears nearingly” - Heidegger 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 25/09/2026my boi poisoned me with the most delicious and spiciest homemade enchiladas. 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the few who manage to “make it” without any recourse to AI tools will be capable of really “making it” 000
💮 Б💣б Smith ❤️🔥📿🎰 @smithums.bsky.social · 24/09/2026absolutely despise the (increasingly) regular chatter about the newest shiny "models". Always a pleb-rush to uproot everything and painstakingly replace it with the new -- kinda wayward preoccupation with the potential to do stuff over doing stuff. 000
