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Re:The Mathocalypse by ajjenkins on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:57PM (#49998712)
The line about “understanding the aliens” reminds me of Ted Chiang’s short story The Evolution of Human Science (2000).

Highly recommend reading it. Very prescient for something written 26 years ago.

https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2000-chiang.pd...

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Re:The Mathocalypse by nbaksalyar on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:22PM (#49998963)
Also his "Division by Zero":

https://web.archive.org/web/20111121100139/http://www.fantas...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_Zero_(short_story)

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Re:The Mathocalypse by quirino on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:15PM (#49998884)
Ted Chiang is incredible, my favorite writer.

I also recommend "Exhalation", though that has nothing to do with AI.

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Re:The Mathocalypse by vanyle on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:11PM (#50000016)
The short story about the digital animals ("The Lifecycle of Software Objects") is an interesting read in light of AI advancement. It is incredible to think that when this story was written, all concepts described were sci-fi, whereas current technology is more advanced than the AIs in the book.
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