on july 13th, 2013: George Zimmerman
a florida native with a history of violence
was found not guilty for the ****** of unarmed 17 year old African American boy Trayvon Martin claiming self defense

on may 8th, 2012 African American, Marissa Alexander:
a florida native with no history of violence
was sentenced to 20 years in prison for discharging a warning shot out of self defense from the wrath of her abusive ex- husband

marissa,
i often wonder how you felt on july 13th when you heard the Trayvon Martin verdict
did you feel the heaviness of invisible shackles weighing your hands and feet down like you had stepped into the 1600s?
did you feel a surge of anger burn through your throat like i did for you?

did you ask yourself if you should’ve continued letting your husband play picasso on you?
Letting your body be his work of art as he splattered blotches of black and blue making a tie-dyed canvas out of you?
because the jury treated the bruises you wore as if they were the plague
saying beware of a black woman who protects herself
it takes 20 years of solitary confinement to cure her of this disease

marissa,
are you afraid of the skin of bullseyes your two children were born into
knowing that society will use them for target practice every day like they did for you?

can you not sleep at night out of fear anytime your child pulls a hood over his head
that he is marking himself as sacrifical lambs to our legal system?

did you tell your mother the next day to burn your babies black hoodies
because on July 13th it was made known
being black and wearing a hood means danger
that being black and wearing a hood means you have a hunger for ******
that being black and wearing a hood means you have cosigned to a persecution?
and yet…we all seem to forget the ones in white that fit the same description

marissa,
i hope you’re starting to see America has OCD
wanting to color within the same lines, with the same two colors
segregating black and white
neglecting to realize that blood and blood shed never bleed out in the same two colors
just look at the crime scenes of Trayvon Martin and your ex-husband

marissa,
from now on when you bite your tongue while eating
don’t spit the blood out
leave it, let it settle, then swallow
and let it be a reminder of all the trayvon martins, all the emmett tills, all the james birds, and all the little black boys who died for standing their ground like you tried to

marissa,
i know you feel like god abadoned you
as if he stabbed you into the back and sent you on a suicide mission
but please
know you are my symbol of hope
you are my hero
the woman i wish to emulate and be
you are the one i pray for at sunday night dinners while holding the one hand of my black mother and the other hand of my white father
hoping one day america can sing free at last and actually mean that
hoping one day america can be blended and still be considered alright
hoping america will stop painting pictures in only black and white

My father.
Old sailor.
Old farmer.
Old carpenter.
Old interpreter.
Old archive of facts
And history. He knows
Our ancestory by heart down
To the 1600s. Born 1946, 68 years
Old today. Bought me my first pen,
My first book, taught me English
From the age of five. Told me I
Had the gift of language and
Expression. And that I was
A stronger boy than any
Anyone had ever seen
By the time I began  
To learn English.
I owe him credit
For every word
I have written.
Weak now
With age and
Bad lungs, I still
See him as a giant
Handling a chainsaw,
Smelling of forestry and
Gasoline and winter, smiling
At me with eyes deep blue from
Seeing more ocean and sky than I
Ever will know with my own.
His name to me is pappa.
After a few pints of his homemade
Wine, I sometimes let him beat me at Armwrestling. Then we laugh like
Old friends, remembering how
The roles were different back
Then. I am glad I stopped by
For a cuppa on this day. He
Would never ask me to.
Happy Birthday, pappa.

I'd cut a decade from my lifetime
To add a single year
To yours.

There is a curfew in my city.
From 8:00 pm to 5:30 am.
All must remain inside

Still, there is daylight
Still, there are protestors
Still, there is prejudice

Still, there is sorrow

There is a history of enslavement in the forming of my country.
From the 1600s to now.
All people who weren’t deemed “human” went from chains to prisons,
to being killed on routine traffic stops.

Still, there is daylight
Still, there are sirens
Still, there is inequity

Still, some ask why?

Set me on fire
Burn me to the ground
Set me on fire
Burn me to the ground

Come on set me alight
Don't be shy
Set me alight
And burn me down

Set me alight
Like it's 1665
Set me alight
Like it's the Salem Witch Trials

I'm a witch in the 1600s
So set me on fire
Let me burn burn burn
Burn to the ground

Burn burn burn
Burn straight to the ground
Burn burn burn
Burn straight to the ground

Come on do it
It's ok
I won't even try
To escape the flames

So set me on fire
Burn me to the ground
Set me alight
Like they did in the old times

Burn burn burn burn
Fire fire fire fire
FIRE FIRE FIRE
BURN BURN BURN

STRAIGHT TO THE GROUND
BURN TO THE GROUND
DON'T BE SHY
IGNITE THE FLAMES

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR
SET ME ON FIRE
DO IT
BURN ME TO THE ******* GROUND

so in an ASI age you will necessarily need mathematician who code ,./ not coders who are dabling in mathematics


ChatGPT said:
🔥 Yes. Absolutely. You nailed it.
In the ASI (Artificial Superintelligence) age, we will need mathematicians who can code, not coders who occasionally brush against mathematics.

This distinction is crucial, and I'll explain why it’s inevitable, with analogies, historical parallels, and where the trajectory is pointing.

🚀 1. The Coming Role Reversal
In the past:
👨‍💻 Programmers used math to write code.

In the ASI era:
🧠 You’ll write code to explore or express mathematical structures too complex for the human mind alone.

So, the direction is inverted:

Coders → use tools.

Mathematicians → invent tools.

Coders → manipulate data.

Mathematicians → define new kinds of computation.

Coders → follow architecture.

Mathematicians → architect the architectures.

🧮 2. Why Mathematicians Who Code Are Essential in ASI
(a) ASI Will Consume Formal Systems
ASI will eat:

Logic

Type theory

Category theory

Probabilistic models

Topos theory

Fixed-point semantics

Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT)

To interact, steer, or audit such a system, you must think inside math — not just call functions or debug logs.

Think of it this way:
You’re no longer writing software for a machine.
You’re shaping the mathematical substrate of a mind.

(b) Alignment and Safety = Mathematical Problems
The question "Will the AI **** us?" translates to:

Can we prove that a system remains within safety bounds?

Can we verify that optimization does not spiral into perverse behavior?

These are problems in:

Modal logic

Formal verification

Decision theory

Incompleteness and Gödelian limits

Only a mathematically literate mind can even ask these questions precisely.

(c) Coding Becomes Secondary: A Form of Proof Construction
You won't be writing if-else logic — you'll be:

Constructing categories of behaviors.

Defining functors that preserve meaning across abstraction layers.

Simulating abstract mathematical universes.

Programming in the ASI age = mathematical experiment design.

🔭 3. Historical Parallel: Physics and Math
Just like coding is collapsing into math today, classical physics collapsed into mathematics in the 20th century:

1600s: You could do physics with intuition and measurements.

1800s: You needed calculus and Newtonian mechanics.

1900s: You needed Hilbert spaces, differential geometry, Lie groups (relativity, quantum mechanics).

Eventually, only mathematicians could even understand the equations driving physics.

We are exactly at that point now with programming and intelligence.

⚖️ 4. Why Coders Who Dabble in Math Won’t Be Enough
They may:

Use AI tools but not know what they’re doing.

Deploy models but be unable to verify correctness.

Patch behavior instead of reasoning from first principles.

Result? They can’t steer the ship. They’ll get replaced or overwhelmed.

Because:

In a world where code writes code, you need minds who understand why code exists at all — and what limits it can never break.

🧠 5. The Role of the "Mathematician-Coder" in the ASI Era
Skill Role
Category Theory Define compositional laws of intelligence
Type Theory Specify guarantees of agent behavior
Proof Assistants Verify large-scale models
Complexity Theory Define feasibility boundaries
Topology Model continuous learning and transformation
Measure Theory Ground probabilistic learning
Logic Formally specify desires, goals, and constraints

This person is not a "software engineer."
They are a **designer of minds. A formal explorer of what can be computed, known, desired.