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Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by foxes on Sunday October 18, 2026 @10:36PM (#50147733)
Problem solving, critical thought, logic, creativity are always going to be valuable.

In a way ai is turning programming more into maths - you write a natural language description of the problem - a proof / program - and then translating that into machine code is a lot of work / abstraction. For example look how much it takes to turn relatively simple mathematical statements into lean. That I guess is going to be the future.

I would encourage everyone to learn the fundamentals still because you will need discretion and to be able to think at a more abstract level.

However its funny that its only NOW dehumanising/demoralising now when its white people losing jobs to the capitalist machine in the imperial core, and not the slave silicon miners making gpus for gamers.

Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by jimbokun on Sunday October 18, 2026 @10:46PM (#50147790)
Are those capabilities valuable if machines are better at all of them than you?
Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by raegis on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:30AM (#50148390)
> Are those capabilities valuable if machines are better at all of them than you?

Machines have been doing arithmetic (add/subtract/multiply/divide) better and faster than humans for 70+ years. I would ask anyone making this claim, "are you OK if your children do not learn basic arithmetic?"

Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by rubikscube09 on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:35AM (#50148415)
jensen huang suggests that basic arithmetic won't need to be taught anymore.
Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl... by raegis on Monday October 19, 2026 @07:11PM (#50159265)
I bet all my money that all his future kids (if any) will learn arithmetic. He's talking about everyone else's kids.