The Pat Hayes
@thepathayes.bsky.social
Visual artist. Retired AI researcher, SWeb, Luce Professor of cognitive science, AAAI President, W3C invited expert, philosopher, logician. Interested in time, consciousness, determinism, quantum theory. I used to flip houses, now I read books.
Sabine Hossenfelder, my favorite theoretical physicist, just posted a new paper arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11037 with this zinger at the end:
"Acknowledgements
I acknowledge help from ChatGPT 5 for literature research
as well as checking this manuscript. I swear I actually wrote
it myself."
"Acknowledgements
I acknowledge help from ChatGPT 5 for literature research
as well as checking this manuscript. I swear I actually wrote
it myself."
arxiv.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Sabine Hossenfelder, my favorite theoretical physicist, just posted a new paper arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11037 with this zinger at the end:
"Acknowledgements
I acknowledge help from ChatGPT 5 for literature research
as well as checking this manuscript. I swear I actually wrote
it myself."
"Acknowledgements
I acknowledge help from ChatGPT 5 for literature research
as well as checking this manuscript. I swear I actually wrote
it myself."
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The bird dance for the ages
June 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The bird dance for the ages
The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier Than You Think newrepublic.com/article/1962... via @newrepublic.com
The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier Than You Think
Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how to screw over poor and working people more effectively.
newrepublic.com
June 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier Than You Think newrepublic.com/article/1962... via @newrepublic.com
Why the one big beautiful bill is the single ugliest you can imagine
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Why the one big beautiful bill is the single ugliest you can imagine
The truth
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May 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Why the one big beautiful bill is the single ugliest you can imagine
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. (Gift Article)
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
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April 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
February 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas newrepublic.com/article/1839... via @newrepublic.com
Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas
Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas newrepublic.com/article/1839... via @newrepublic.com
By way of introducing myself, an explanation of my handle. First, there are way too many 'Pat Hayes's (google it), so I needed something extra, and all the obvious ones have already been used. But long ago, while I was AAAI President, and hence something of a public figure in the AI world...
November 18, 2024 at 1:42 AM
By way of introducing myself, an explanation of my handle. First, there are way too many 'Pat Hayes's (google it), so I needed something extra, and all the obvious ones have already been used. But long ago, while I was AAAI President, and hence something of a public figure in the AI world...
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If you haven't used this one I definitely suggest you do. 👇💙👩🍳🏳️⚧️
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November 16, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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If you haven't used this one I definitely suggest you do. 👇💙👩🍳🏳️⚧️
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A right triangle has sides (a, b, c) where c is the hypotenuse. Scale up three copies by respectively a, b and c to get similar triangles with sides:
(a|2, ab, ac) (ab, b|2, bc) (ac, bc, c|2)
then the first two fit exactly inside the third, sides a|2 and b|2 fitting exactly into c|2. QED
(a|2, ab, ac) (ab, b|2, bc) (ac, bc, c|2)
then the first two fit exactly inside the third, sides a|2 and b|2 fitting exactly into c|2. QED
November 16, 2024 at 4:00 AM
A right triangle has sides (a, b, c) where c is the hypotenuse. Scale up three copies by respectively a, b and c to get similar triangles with sides:
(a|2, ab, ac) (ab, b|2, bc) (ac, bc, c|2)
then the first two fit exactly inside the third, sides a|2 and b|2 fitting exactly into c|2. QED
(a|2, ab, ac) (ab, b|2, bc) (ac, bc, c|2)
then the first two fit exactly inside the third, sides a|2 and b|2 fitting exactly into c|2. QED
Just read "Hidden Harmonies" by Robert & Ellen Kaplan, a history of Pythagoras' theorem woven into a kind of humanist hymn in praise of number theory and geometry, a great read. I learned two new (to me) proofs of Pythagoras, one of them stunningly simple, see next post.
November 16, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Just read "Hidden Harmonies" by Robert & Ellen Kaplan, a history of Pythagoras' theorem woven into a kind of humanist hymn in praise of number theory and geometry, a great read. I learned two new (to me) proofs of Pythagoras, one of them stunningly simple, see next post.