Re:The Dark Night of Mathematics
by tidojo on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:10PM
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you can’t climb to the moon, you need rockets for that. In the hands of great researchers, AI will accelerate and propel human knowledge far beyond what we could achieve with pencil and paper alone.
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> In the hands of great researchers, AI will accelerate and propel human knowledge far beyond what we could achieve with pencil and paper alone.
Who needs researchers when you have great AI.
Soon we will all be Wall-E fat people with AI that's there to do anything we can be bothered to think of.
Re:The Dark Night of Mathematics
by MinimalAction on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:41PM
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True, but many of us have grown identifying ourselves with the kind of work we do, the discoveries that follow from our hard work. Even in the case of rockets, we designed the rockets! Here, I've to let the oracle take care of things while I'm robbed of that delight of discovery.
> you can’t climb to the moon, you need rockets for that.
We don't live for rockets or the moon, but for ourselves. Anywhere we can go to only at the price of our despair we have no business going to.
I think you replied to the wrong comment.
No, they obviously didn't.
Re:The Dark Night of Mathematics
by vouaobrasil on Sunday July 26, 2026 @01:48AM
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> In the hands of great researchers, AI will accelerate and propel human knowledge far beyond what we could achieve with pencil and paper alone.
Did you ever think that the pursuit of knowledge might be not just producing it but discovering it as a collective human effort? Putting to much mechanization in it kills the joy of it.