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If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

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  1. E-Reverance · · focus · HN ↗
    Jacob Tsimerman claims [1] we might have superhuman expositors by April, so then what?

    [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;H7_d_sgui6o?t=4436" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;H7_d_sgui6o?t=4436 (timestamped url)

    1. ViscountPenguin · · focus · HN ↗
      It&#x27;s all good until we have superhuman appreciators :)
      1. oliculipolicula · · focus · HN ↗
        That which has received the Mandate of Sapience must be cool (eg any skateboarder skilled enough to impress his mom)

        LLMs got It, sometime this year. Terry Tao and Friends have appatently lost It, same time this year. (This is not to claim that the Mandate gets extended to their creators the frontier labs or even Jeff Dean et al. Definitely not their sponsors. Howbout distillers?)

        The thing about Mandates--- they are not forever. LLMs can &quot;lose&quot; It. Probably not back to mathematicians -- that&#x27;d be atypical (unless they quickly learn to &quot;make their own lightsabers&quot;?) . Likelier: to a scene of humans no-one yet thinks about.

        Skateboarders didn&#x27;t take the Mandate from anyone. So no one takes It from them. There&#x27;s some karmic law at play

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