alt Hacker News> Puts the onus on the AI companies to provide a specific replacement mechanism, no?
Why? If someone makes an innovation that undercuts the underpinnings of some existing institution, why are they are responsible for cleaning up its failure?
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They’re not asking them to stop working on AI, but to stop publishing mathematics.
Exactly. Mathematicians are trying to cope that math wasn't slop this whole time.
Grothendieck was anti-slop but most papers are slop.
I don't think AI is going to rewrite bourbaki anytime soon
The entire western world is anti-progress and pro-incumbency, and its very tightly linked to gerontocracy.
Older people are desperately trying to keep a grasp on their current power and lifestyles at the expense of younger people and technology.
We need to ban Waymos because taxi drivers need to be protected.
We need to block housing because it would lower my property values, and eliminate property taxes while we're at it! I don't use the local schools so why should I be taxed to pay for it.
We need to spend recklessly to pay my pension and have the next generation foot the bill.
Its just a repulsive ideology.
Yes it seems odd.
Out sourcing construction jobs was great for the economy while leaving entire cities in rubbles.
But as soon as it hits the privileged class there is a call to "provide a specific replacement mechanism".