Comment by dag100

21 hours ago

> I want accelerated material science, medical science, energy, better outcomes for people across the world.

There will be people benefiting from advances in these fields.

Neither you nor I will be one of them.

Ah, so you're saying none of us will benefit from the discovery of new mathematical knowledge?

You've just condemned funding math, even human-produced math.

Either math is useful, in which case AI math is useful, or math is not useful, in which case we can save money by having mathematicians sell shoes or clean toilets.

  • Look carefully at the portion of derac's comment that was quoted.

    > I want accelerated material science, medical science, energy, better outcomes for people across the world.

    Does it mention mathematics?

    Let AI make advances in all these fields. But if most of the power and capital in society is captured by a tiny minority, then these advances will become inaccessible to common people.