Mathematicians Reflect on AI: Zero-Sum Framing and Childhood Trauma
littmath · x · 2026-08-03
Mathematician Terry Tao tweets that it is a good time to be a constitutionally cheerful mathematician. Another mathematician replies that people are often mean to mathematicians today, framing AI's success in solving math problems as a zero-sum game against humans, possibly to even out their own childhood math trauma.
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