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InfinityByTen • today at 11:40 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Maybe they should, you know. Maybe OpenAI is exactly working towards so that we need to do that :)

It's fascinating how people like to push any statement to its limits, because it circles around to absurdity and they believe they've made a point. Moderation seems to be chasing you, but you clearly are faster!


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drstewart • today at 1:20 PM

Taking a statement to its limits is useful for that reason. This is why it's so common to do in physics & math, in fact!

If your mental model breaks at the limits, it maybe means there's some truth in what you say, but there's a nuance that's clearly missing.

And that's the case here: nobody argues when automation comes for many types of other tasks, so why is mathematics special? Or even art? We should either find that line or accept that maybe they aren't as special as we assumed.