Jeremy Cohen argues Erdős would use AGI for chores.
ok the thing about erdos is he obviously loved collaborating with humans. he could have done a lot on his own, but math was how he chose to connect. I'm not sure he would have been very into chatbots?
Imagine if Erdos were still alive with a GPT-5.5 Pro subscription and amped up on amphetamines.
Positive users appreciate the Erdős GPT-5.5 Pro hypothetical as inspiring or clever, while negative users criticize associated AI companies and figures like Altman as scammy.
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Would be a generational lock-in for the ages
Imagine if Erdos were still alive with a GPT-5.5 Pro subscription and amped up on amphetamines.
@nsaphra I think part of it was that he wanted his chores done for him. Bro would’ve loved AGI
ok the thing about erdos is he obviously loved collaborating with humans. he could have done a lot on his own, but math was how he chose to connect. I'm not sure he would have been very into chatbots?
"When Ronald Graham, a concerned friend and fellow mathematician, bet Erdos $500 that he couldn’t stay off amphetamines for a month, Erdos accepted and easily won the challenge. When the 30 days was up, Erdos said to Graham:
“You’ve showed me I’m not an addict. But I didn’t get any work done. I’d get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I’d have no ideas, just like an ordinary person.“
“You’ve set mathematics back a month.”
Erdos resumed taking amphetamines and did so for every day of his life until his death 17 years later." https://turningpointtreatmentcenter.com/why-are-intelligent-people-more-likely-to-abuse-drugs/
@XYHan_ bro would be awake for 8 days prob and then die 😭
@XYHan_ GPT accelerates search.
Erdős specialized in finding invariants hiding inside complexity.
The interesting question isn’t how much faster he could compute.
It’s what new invariants he would discover.
@XYHan_ Isn’t that just half of anthropic at this point?
@XYHan_ be like Erdos
@XYHan_ thank you professor for the Sunday afternoon inspiration
@XYHan_ He was GPT 5.5 back then to other mathematicians
@XYHan_ @burny_tech Amped up on Adderall
@XYHan_ You wonder if he would have done better with modafinil
@XYHan_ @eigendecomposer Chills
@XYHan_ I love the end to you tweet lol
@XYHan_ Imagine if terry Davis had it man
@XYHan_ Lmao
@XYHan_ he'd be building Gas Town for mathematical research and would go 20 straight days without sleep
@XYHan_ his name is terrance tao
@beffjezos why not these companies use the same user history input to select users for access to these models? Oh yeah ‘cause Scam Altman
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