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1. pfdietz · 1790023399 · focus · HN ↗

   G. H. Hardy is revolving in his grave.

   "Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds." -- from A Mathematician's Apology (1940)

   No wonder the scornful are upset with AI.

   1. philipwhiuk · 1790077193 · focus · HN ↗

      Ramanujan's insights without proofs are almost opposite to an AI that produces proofs with insight.
   2. scuppernong · 1790109257 · focus · HN ↗

      meta-commentary like this, then, is surely the work of a third-rate mind

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