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Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?

293 points · 384 comments · auggierose

  1. bananaflag · · focus · HN ↗
    > Similar logic applies to every industry and every job. And it comes to the conclusion that we won’t have enough people for all the jobs that need to be done.

    In the (extremely) short run, yes. In the long run, those jobs will also be done by AI.

    It's like chimpanzees seeing human society and saying "look how complex it is, imagine how many chimpanzees it needs to maintain it".

    1. sm0rad · · focus · HN ↗
      Math proofs are special because they’re verifiable, safe, and do not require physical experiments. You can perform exhaustive parallel search in simulation with RLVR.

      Do you think this applies to say, surgery, as well? There are few useful problems that share these properties.

      1. password54321 · · focus · HN ↗
        Do you think surgeons start performing surgery for the first time on people?
        1. airstrike · · focus · HN ↗
          Sounds like you're saying that so long as the LLM with robot arms starts by operating on mice, cows and pigs you're fine with it
          1. password54321 · · focus · HN ↗
            wtf are you on. Surgeons practice on much more than animals.
            1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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