As formal reasoning gets dirt cheap, Fermi and Feynman stories look quaint
akbirthko · x · 2026-09-02
A pointed observation: now that formal reasoning has become unbelievably affordable, the classic stories of Manhattan Project physicists like Fermi, Feynman, and von Neumann doing genius-level mental feats start to read as "cute li'l chimp with its chimp tricks" — on how cheap AI inference is redefining the scarcity of brilliance.
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