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torginustoday at 3:42 PM1 replyview on HN

There's no honor in being stupid, yet I must admit I am stupid, as there's even less honor in being stupid and pretending otherwise.

A lot of people were super hyped about OpenAI's 10 discoveries, but I still don't understand what they mean, and even if I did, what are the implications.

Like, what are non-sofic groups, and what follows from the conclusion that they exist?

I mean in the sense that quantum mechanics might make my head spin, but it's because of that that we have stuff like semiconductors, which have been one of the most significant discoveries.

The Fourier transform is one of the reasons we have fast telecommunications and radars.

What practical things are possible or might be possible due to these results?


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kadobantoday at 4:07 PM

> What practical things are possible or might be possible due to these results?

Not much, they're all fairly minor problems that have been solved, of ~entirely niche academic interest. It's so far more just that AI _can_ solve novel math problems, ones that humans didn't accidentally train the answer in and it just spit it back out.