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iyyg··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
You’re struggling with nuance.

Would Einstein be successful at running apple? Nope

This seems very hard for people to understand.

It will be painful for many to realise - you should focus on doing something that positively affects the economy. Everything else is noise and many endeavours are transitory.

iyyg··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
“ Yes, human beings can do more now in some ways but...to put it poetically, I think there will be no more heroes like Einstein and Newton of the past. Now it will just be someone cleverly turning the crank.”

This is false… there’s lots of ingenuity to be had and demonstrated. But it’ll only get recognised if it makes a material contribution to the economy imo. Otherwise yes it’ll be seen as meh - but that’s already happening.

People like Einstein were revered in society. The average person cannot name a leading scientist etc today.