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> You sound pessimistic

Duh? There is nothing left in the world to be excited about, it has been completely and totally strip mined for profit. We are sitting here in a post discussing the commoditization and industrialization of MATHEMATICS and you are confused that people are 'pessimistic'?

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What were we excited about before? The unknown? There is still plenty of that. Now is there is this machine that lies between us and the unknown.

But nothing you said was true? So aren't you just sad and letting bad ideas color your worldview?

Speaking as a mathematician (or at least a former one) math has (at least from my perspective) become quite industrial and drab already. Most of the most interesting stuff has been solved already and a lot of it is just and endless race to generalize to stuff that interests in reality, very few. AI seems like the next stage in this process to me.

What are you talking about, that quote is quite literally from the article we are all discussing

> But it will not last. Mathematics is about to graduate. It will grow into a full-scale industry and become the true infrastructure of all scientific and technological progress

If your thesis is "that will not actually happen" then say that instead.

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