Not surprising that Gary Marcus (@garymarcus.bsky.social) thinks LLMs will not get us to AGI. His recent column is about how the LLM-will-save-us narrative is crumbling at an accelerating rate, about how obvious the emperor's lack of clothing is becoming.

I help run an academic conference and we receive spam messages like this from time to time. I keep wanting to respond that we already have a perfectly fine way for anybody in the world to submit articles that get featured on our website (as long as you don't object to peer review).

Seemingly not available in Canada, alas.

Moduli spaces are a bit like what you’re describing. They’re spaces whose points represent configurations of some mathematical object, but which can be messier than “space” as we inhabit it. In the moduli space of smoothies, the ”dimensions” can be coupled in complex ways.

I heard AI and its relationship to the economy recently described as “The wasting is masked because the tumor is growing so fast that the body isn’t losing weight.”