Happy, those able to know the causes of things

[This is a guest post by Nestor Guillen, crossposted from his blog. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Keywords: LLMs, cultural technologies, skateboarding, creative communities, AI industry. A note on the timing of this essay. I started writing this in the middle of the ICM, and it has taken me this long to finish writing, see also my shorter post from August. In any case the bulk of the essay was done in August and shared with a few close friends for feedback. Earlier this week, Tristan Buckmaster announced a breakthrough finding, done in collaboration with Levent Alpöge, of a finite-time blow up for 3D incompressible Euler with forcing. He also made serious allegations of misconduct by OpenAI (see announcement). The next day, OpenAI announced a finite-time blow up result for 3D Navier-Stokes with forcing, obtained from their internal LLM. There has been lots of press coverage, I recommend Kenneth Chang’s reporting. I have…