As of this comment you have 26 comments out of 206 total on this comment section, more than 10% basically all spreading FUD to try and make other people as miserable and pessimistic as you. I'm not sure what your motivations are but I'm glad we have people like Grant on the other side trying to keep a positive outlook on life and the future, and I hope all you eternal doomers who constantly try to bring others down with you find joy as well.

Your naivety is charming.

If math is nothing but solving puzzles for fun then I think a lot of people should be very pissed off that they are doing hard labor while being taxed to fund a puzzle hobby group.

Of course I don't believe that math is just fun puzzles. But if it were, then it would deserve to die as a career, AI or not.

If people weren't interested in solving puzzles for fun we'd still be banging sticks together in a cave somewhere.

Sure.

Those people will also be pissed that people get paid to make music or art or literature or poetry and all such frivolous things.

Whatever doesnt count as maths is just not maths. Its just carrying out instructions to get some "gain".

Other people usually care only about "gain", its their only motivation. Non "gain" results are just happy accidents.

And "gain" (once you have your survival covered) is just an invented abstraction with 0 real meaning. But people try to convince themselfs that it has meaning.

This goes back to the classic story for "kids" about the emperor that has no clothes.