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pfdietz • today at 3:49 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Unless AI can do everything involved in math, their greatly accelerated production of certain parts of math should increase the demand for people to do the remaining parts.


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throwaway384034 • today at 4:32 PM

Recursive self-improvement, which is underway will crush anything that is verifiable. The only place people have for now is non-verifiable work which is harder to find in maths than other domains.

caaqil • today at 4:14 PM

> greatly accelerated production of certain parts of math should increase the demand for people to do the remaining parts

So the pie just gets larger? Large enough to outpace the displacement? I am gonna wait for this to generalize then, looking forward to AI giving us more software developers, mathematicians, etc. The economic laws have been broken. It's an infinite money glitch, as they used to call it.

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