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On the other hand, the asteroid hitting the dinosaurs ushered in the ascendancy of mammals. Math will accelerate. Journals will be torn down and rebuilt, ossified fields will rejuvenate, the high priests of math will be disrobed, and a new ethos will be built. It's a time of change. But the human project of extending mathematical knowledge is about to experience the largest positive jolt in its history, and there's no better time to be doing 'math.' So, fellow mathematicians, adapt! Stay light on your feet, like our ancestors!
Becoming increasingly convinced that AI is going to be an extinction-level event for math. It's like watching the asteroid hit the dinosaurs.
These disruptive effects could well be very painful, but they'll eventually be temporary as the field rearranges around a new equilibrium. But that's a whole separate thing.
AI won't be an extinction level event for mathematics. It will be awesome. Math is the only discipline that's always infinite in all directions (to use a phrase from Freeman Dyson). The danger is from the disruptive social effects caused by not understanding what it is about.
Becoming increasingly convinced that AI is going to be an extinction-level event for math. It's like watching the asteroid hit the dinosaurs.
you, idiot: AGI is gonna kill mathematicians like the asteroid that killed dinosaurs me, mathematician: the dinosaurs are retrocausally using mathematicians to invent AGI and bring them back from extinction by making jurassic park real
@WKCosmo mathematicians will be fine.