We'll tell our grandchildren "we used to make our own handsome faces".

Cyrodiil's Jesus! No, I tried generating something a touch less 4chan-does-Amnesia and more Balkan Romani without the perpetually disappointed look.

Since I'm self-righteous, I'd like to think one of the last things it'll come for is physics and math.

Theory is much less about hand-waving connections between deeply understood parts and more about doing the math with as little preconceived ideas as possible. Don't imagine what atom/potential/sun is, calculate and interpret what comes out, see if anyone tested something similar / calculated it in a similar regime. Propose an experiment, try to make a feedback loop with someone (or something) that'd bounce ideas back. It's everything else that ought to be automated, 'cause the amount of paperwork they try (underline: try) to pile on me is just fucking ludicrous.

The problem is that models aren't better at determining they're wrong than humans, and are unlikely to learn it since their very nature is numerical bias. And, frankly, LLM/models/AI/whatever should have less of a problem replacing philosophy, because doing proper math requires pencils, paper and a wastepaper basket for wrong ideas... whereas philosophers seem to only ever need the first two.

Otherwise, I kinda stopped paying attention to anything that isn't directly related to my interests tbh. Seems like everyone is losing their shit over anything and everything in the news/work/word holes, while I'm tackling the deeper mysteries of is it better to keep seeing someone with a 3-year-old and see where it leads or cut it loose before things get difficult for the kid moreso than us.

Anyway, I hope you are well. :)

Same to you. We gotta do some meetup. I wanted to organize one in January, but my health took a dip, maybe it's time to try again.