"Why should humanity be held hostage for your personal fun?": the AI-math debate continues
cyanopsis · x · 2026-09-12
In the ongoing X debate, unironictechbro argues that if "playing chess" becomes "doing math to advance understanding of the world," AI acceleration is good — you can still do math for personal fun, but humanity shouldn't be held hostage to it. cyanopsis holds that the problem-solving process itself develops the field and questions AI labs' ethics. A clash over personal intellectual pleasure versus collective acceleration.
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