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Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by runarberg on Sunday October 18, 2026 @09:13PM (#50147212)
I keep hearing these “AI will make this” and “AI will become that”. Boosters are always making these claims for years now, but whenever AI becomes more powerful everything just sucks more.

I don’t buy these claims anymore, and haven‘t been for a long time. I think you [as in you boosters; not you specifically] are full of shit. I don‘t think you know what AI will become, you just dream up some scenario where everything becomes better by some magic, but it won’t. It will become worse. People loose their jobs, people loose their tenures, and instead we get just more and more slop, more and more span, energy becomes more expensive, our planet becomes more polluted, our internet becomes more polluted. Our servers become overrun by bot traffic, our gaming machines become too expensive, etc. etc.

I just want you to stop making things worse. I just want you to stop training more AI. It sucks, I hate it, and I want it gone.

Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by jlos on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:20PM (#50148002)
AI helps me learn math now, what are you talking about??

I don’t waste time on unfamiliar notation, it provides me with context, suggests things I wouldn’t have thought of. And connects it to fields I wouldn’t have thought of.

We have personal tutors with PhD level knowledge for basically free if you know the questions to ask.

There is no waiting, results are here.

Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by akoboldfrying on Sunday October 18, 2026 @09:24PM (#50147273)
AI has already made mathematics better in the sense that it has greatly advanced what we know to be true (theorems).

The only way that it hasn't made mathematics better is in the sense of human mathematicians' career prospects -- and in this respect, it is identical to other forms of automation that the world, and especially computer programmers like us, have participated in in the past without complaint.

Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by jimbokun on Sunday October 18, 2026 @10:24PM (#50147660)
So AI is only bad for HUMANS, which is exactly the point being made in the post you replied to.
Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by akoboldfrying on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:12PM (#50147952)
It's "worse for humans" in exactly the same way that first the Industrial Revolution and later computer programming made things "worse for humans", but the post you're referring to only notices that it's "worse" when they are the victim.
Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by jimbokun on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:27PM (#50148041)
It’s “worse for humans” in exactly the same way the Industrial Revolution was bad for all the horses that weren’t needed anymore.
Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by akoboldfrying on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:35PM (#50148090)
I agree with this actually. All of these things were good for some and bad for some, and these groups overlapped. All were good for (most) humans-as-consumers, and bad for (some) humans-as-producers, and the IR was also bad for horses.