Comment by anilgulecha
11 hours ago
I'm convinced Math is the canary for what's going to happen to knowledge work. Coding was ahead in harnessing early LLM capability, but Math, given it's pure form, has aleady racing ahead.
The dimensions to notice are: Research speedup, practitioner expertize, labour dynamics, junior entrants, world impact.
In that sense it's a canary, whatever happens to Math, will in order flow to other sciences in-order of purity: Computer science, physics, chem, bio, social sciences.
Math is the opposite of a canary because it's possible to generate infinite amounts of synthetic training data for it, unlike almost every other kind of knowledge work where correctness depends on external input.
That's why it's a canary - because it has minimal external input, and most pure.
External inputs are bound get LLM friendlier with time, in the order I mentioned above.