Comment by fwlr
7 hours ago
Well, that’s the thing, isn’t it? They somehow invented a way of solving an open problem without advancing the field. That’s something that mathematicians had never even thought was possible. And while the mathematicians were beginning the great conversation to re-examine their fundamental understanding of the pursuit of math in light of this new phenomenon, OpenAI decided they would do it again 372 more times.
>They somehow invented a way of solving an open problem without advancing the field.
And nothing stops mathematicians from solving it in a way that does advance the field. Claude's existence doesn't change that.
Such a naive take. The funding for solving these problems went to zero over night.
Hence the funding was never for "advancing the understanding", but the problems themselves.
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