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Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era by noslenwerdna on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:06PM (#50342907)
You can still discover it for yourself even if AI discovered it first (or some other human, or an alien on another planet). It is fun to figure out how something works, in and of itself
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Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era by abstractbill on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:22PM (#50343136)
Absolutely. One of the best pieces of advice my PhD advisor gave me was that to really understand a particular result I would usually have to redo the proof of it myself (even after reading someone else's proof).
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Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era by rubikscube09 on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:36PM (#50343346)
that's not nearly as exciting as uncovering something new first yourself, but I agree to some extent. Also that's not something you'll get paid for, it's basically coursework at that point.
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Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era by gunslinger_meta on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:58AM (#50352048)
Sure, but for most humans except for some on the upper echelons of education and intelligence, discovering something new for the first time was never going to happen anyway.
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