I just hope wherever this goes I get to adopt a many-eyed screech dogggo

People like him are only given support and trust once in an eternity.

There are plenty of people with similar potential, the problem is we crush, reject, obliterate and kill them all 99% of the time before we can witness their gift.

the world has moved further and further away from his dreams.

Not here it hasn’t!

Also open access science publishing has exploded in the years since his death.

It is so radicalizing to me that AI companies are socially and economically doing way worse than Aaron and facing zero repercussions for it.

Also open access science journals are a MUCH bigger thing now because we realized Aaron Swartz was right after we killed him.

God has a whole set of DnD dice!

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Fantastic article! Anyone got a way around paywall?

To the window to the wall

'Til sweat condenses without needing tiny balls

I would like to emphasize that lets say that the mathematicians take from this that they shouldn’t have posted all of their exciting stuff online for the general interest of the public/curious minds and to only share promising new directions when they are sure all the easy low hanging fruit is explored by them for potential in publishing research/getting funding… what good is that?

We are all exploring the same cave and yes of course explorers should be rewarded for finding new promising passages into areas of the cave that have yet to be explored, but we have set the incentives to be opposite so that every caver who finds a promising direction is incentivized to hide it and try to clandestinely map out the full extent of the cave that is reachable through that portal… before bringing the discovery to the group where instantly selfish actors will try to use automated tools to grab all the newly accessible low hanging fruit before anybody can find the fruit through a more thoughtful and human means. This is suffocating to knowledge and science especially given the distorted structures we have imposed on science and how it must operate and quantify within society to be deemed materially valuable.

We need to focus on the fact that this kind of use of “AI” is essentially like contracting a sailing ship to take you across the Atlantic while knowing nothing about how to use a boat, paying people who know how to sail you safely across the ocean to do so while you lounge around and then when you get within 10 feet of the coast of Europe leaping off and swimming to shore before the boat can dock.

Yes you can argue you were the first of that crew to cross the Atlantic but… ok? Why the hell did you do that? …and now you are trying to use that fact to argue that human sailing crews have been surpassed by your genius design?

“Blah blah blah China is worse though! blah blah blah!!” - people who spend their time here concern trolling about tankies