> something that few years ago was decades away.

There's no way of knowing this - I see articles fairly often on HN of mathematicians (sometimes grad students or younger) solving problems where progress previously had stalled.

Thank god they can do it now! I'm willing to add thousands more to my bills, I'm sure AGI is around the corner and will make life so much easier.

Well, that's surely worth sacrificing people's livelihood for.

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