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Mathematics Without Mathematicians

28 pointsby varjagtoday at 7:47 AM31 commentsview on HN

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Tweytoday at 10:34 AM

> The result is that we will live in a demon-haunted world, full of marvelous devices whose operation we will not understand, based on engineering principles we will not understand, discovered using formalisms we will not understand.

Well, that's just where we started — and then we developed science and mathematics to understand it. Why would it be any different if the demons live in our technological progeny instead of the natural world?

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RandomLensmantoday at 10:34 AM

Math might get a lot bigger and then there might be proportionately fewer people but not necessarily in total. Unless humans play no role in economics, business, society, etc., I doubt human intermediation and discovery (or direction of discovery) will go away.

raver1975today at 12:12 PM

I built a math research engine. If you like reading articles about newly uncovered mathematics, you might like this: https://alethean.org

fred123123today at 12:05 PM

Classic God in a Box type argument, yes you can then argue anything

motbus3today at 11:39 AM

The pure system of patents and copyright is broken.

Imagine being able to only throwing money and patenting everything, even if it existed before. The legal behinds this will be so mess that no one will be able to produce anything

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c2c2ctoday at 11:46 AM

I am growing tired of seeing the terms "cope" and "moving the goalposts" in response to discussions around AI. Is there not value in trying to understand what the strengths and weaknesses of the technology are? How can we do that without examining the limitations of the models' current abilities? If we simply dismiss those arguments out of hand as feeble attempts to deny the inevitable rise of superintelligence, then where does that leave us? Shall we all just lay down and start praying to the machine god?

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commenter711today at 11:00 AM

W ragebait

gandhiandy69today at 11:40 AM

Idgaf as Long as we solve the Riemann Conjencture somehow

chrisjjtoday at 11:43 AM

> you open a link to an interesting-looking project and find the README is unreadable AI slop.

Perhaps already you are not the intended audience. Slop-raised parrots will lap it up.

serious_angeltoday at 10:14 AM

    > The AIs will exceed humans in taste and intuition...  
    > The AIs will be better teachers than the humans. In any case, there won’t be a human audience for expository work of frontier math.  
    > No human needs to understand any of it...
Absolute nonsense. I am sorry, but... is it appropriate to not consider the author sick or having some mental disorder?

It seems like the person has no idea what they are talking about, or just too sarcastic to the point of idiotism.

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