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It doesn’t feel anecdotally that most serious scientific professionals (mathematicians, software engineers) denigrate AI as much as wrestle with how to adapt to the world in which it exists To say these fields contained no creativity is false, but they are also not pure creativity alone.

Watching your fields’ boundaries pushed is exciting, and it doesn’t yet quite replace the humans at the forefront of their respective fields - so it’s less threatening to the ego. But accepting that before and after involves some very real grief - grief that we often tend to paper over or downplay.