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1. accurrent · 1789806302 · focus · HN ↗

   One thing that concerns me from all this is "understanding" is very important to human progress. The fact it took 400 years to crack Fermat's theorem resulted in a lot of "Side Quests". These side quests helped grow other fields (for instance elliptical cryptography). Im concerned with AI that we will loose these side quests.

   1. blfr · 1789806471 · focus · HN ↗

      I do neither maths nor science with AI but in my experience most models are perfectly willing to burn tokens on a ton of sidequests at the earliest opportunity.

      1. accurrent · 1789807310 · focus · HN ↗

         Yeah but do you read through and find if one of those side quests is useful?

         1. someguynamedq · 1789811242 · focus · HN ↗

            Yes, why not?

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