4+ hour, 13+ min ago  (776+ words) The math world has been in minor upheaval over Open AI disproving something called the "planar unit distance conjecture, a problem posed by Erdos in 1946. "I find this existentially upsetting, one alleged mathematician wrote. "I see myself shriveling into nothing....

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (752+ words) A couple of weeks ago I wrote "The Expert Trap and the Next War," a piece about why so many smart people got the Ukraine invasion wrong, and what that pattern of failure means for the next crisis. It generated…...