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Watching a mathematician cry on a NYT podcast as he wrestles with what AI means for him and his peers’ sense of self. He’s not crying out of distaste for AI, just with his struggle to reconcile the beauty of his work, self identity, and role in the before and after.

Daniel Saewitz

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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.

Daniel Saewitz

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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.

13/10/26, 8:35 pm0 reposts0 likes

Daniel Saewitz

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Here’s the clip of Steven Strogatz on The Daily www.instagram.com/reel/Decg9IN...

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