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A prediction that staying at math’s frontier will require merging brains with future cognitive systems
The writer says the prospect caused depression that took them six years to get over.
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A writer predicts that staying at the edge of mathematical development will require merging one’s brain with future cognitive systems. They say the prospect caused an existential crisis and depression that took six years to get over. They describe the crisis as a fear of giving up all they and their genetic history have known, rather than a fear of losing supremacy.
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