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@dkthomp.bsky.social

I wrote about crying mathematicians, mean smart machines, and the emergence of technological grief, as a rapidly improving intelligence makes violent contact with a modern sensibility that prizes human intellect and often equates it with purpose, dignity, and self-worth.

derekthompson.orgI Know Why the Mathematicians WeepOn technological grief

15/10/26, 11:49 am5 reposts21 likes

Welcome to interesting times

@wlcm2int-times.bsky.social

Instead of questioning a technology that makes your brain irrelevant, let's question your stubborn identification as a thinking human being.

Welcome to interesting times

@wlcm2int-times.bsky.social

"Think about a world where non-mathematicians leapfrog the field after a few AI prompts." Disgusting quantitative argument.

Guy Baddis

@guybaddis.bsky.social

Haven't read the article yet... Because mathematical knowledge is too big for one person, I've thought that much progress is just combining insights from a few areas, "cleanup." AI can do cleanup rapidly. And AI can take a genuinely new idea and immediately check every frontier.