Comment by pfdietz
10 hours ago
Unless AI can do everything involved in math, their greatly accelerated production of certain parts of math should increase the demand for people to do the remaining parts.
10 hours ago
Unless AI can do everything involved in math, their greatly accelerated production of certain parts of math should increase the demand for people to do the remaining parts.
Recursive self-improvement, which is underway will crush anything that is verifiable. The only place people have for now is non-verifiable work which is harder to find in maths than other domains.
> greatly accelerated production of certain parts of math should increase the demand for people to do the remaining parts
So the pie just gets larger? Large enough to outpace the displacement? I am gonna wait for this to generalize then, looking forward to AI giving us more software developers, mathematicians, etc. The economic laws have been broken. It's an infinite money glitch, as they used to call it.
It is a largely romanticised idea that pops up here now and then. Meanwhile Anthropic just put up a post saying they are getting closer to replacing people in their own company. That's the objective.
I wonder how many mathematicians even truly understand any of the latest research which is only going to increase in output. It will be impossible to keep up unless you slow AI down (not happening).
Edit: Anthropic blog https://www.anthropic.com/research/employment-at-anthropic
> Meanwhile Anthropic just put up a post saying they are getting closer to replacing people in their own company.
The goals of transhumanists go quite a bit further than just replacing people in companies.
https://www.google.com/search?q=anthropic+transhumanism
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