WSJ's AI-Doom Coverage Spends Millions in Compute on Math Proofs, and Readers Ask Why
RaccoonMinimum172 · reddit · 2026-09-14
A Reddit discussion unpacks the WSJ article that triggered the latest "AI killing humanity" coverage, highlighting how math feats are used as marketing: solving the century-old Navier-Stokes problem reportedly took millions of dollars in compute and a few days.
The author argues that if the goal is benefiting humanity, AI labs should target low-hanging fruit in infectious disease or neuroscience first, citing Dario Amodei's Machines of Loving Grace and its acknowledged physical-world bottlenecks. Alternatively, if math is the only frontier, why not aim at physics and understanding the universe?
Related event: OpenAI Claims 10,000 Agents Solved Navier-Stokes Problem in 88 Hours(11 posts)→
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