tszzl pushes back on "AI shouldn't solve math for us": we deserve the answers, not preserve ignorance
tszzl · x · 2026-09-09
Responding to Mihonarium's argument that AI shouldn't solve math for humanity (except alignment), tszzl strongly disagrees: the universe is not a playground reserved for an academic elite, the answers matter beyond their fun value, and deliberately preserving preventable ignorance is a miserable mindset.
The exchange captures the two sides of the AI-for-science debate as AI cracks millennium-level math problems.
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