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“researchers trying to improve general understanding”

Pretty sure AI will do better for that.. mathematicians need to be centaurs like the rest of us and stop rhetoric that is going to make existing math centaurs feel like they might get math-cancelled

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My point is that there is a real difference between massive ai company budgets and research mathematicians driven it, it is not an argument against use of ai which seems inevitable.

>mathematicians need to be centaurs like the rest of us and stop rhetoric that is going to make existing math centaurs feel like they might get math-cancelled

Centaurs?

(An inseparable fusion of two distinct animals, in this case human/AI. HN uses the word often where "cyborg" would fit. Also: "reverse centaur", where the human part is lacking a head).

I prefer thinking of human AI fusion like a lichen, which is a close symbiosis at the cellular level. That’s what it would look like.

'centaurs' is a term from chess, where people play chess with computer assistance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess

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