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1. lacker · 1789688599 · focus · HN ↗

   I have seen two worries recently:

   1. People will publish so much frontier mathematics, humans won't be able to understand it all

   2. Frontier mathematics will all be kept secret

   Fortunately, these seem like they can't both happen at once.

   1. samirillian · 1789733718 · focus · HN ↗

      I do think they can happen together like malnutrition and obesity. Pursuit of recognition, intellectual property, remuneration, war machines, etc, will naturally drive new strategies for academics to compete with capital-intensive AI research. One strategy will surely be new types of silo-ing, whether that will kill the post-enlightenment spirit of math we’ve come to love is still an open question

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