"The most anti-Progress fumble in human history": extrapolating AI's math pace to biology and energy
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-03
Part two of Afinetheorem's thread on FrontierMath's saturation: he acknowledges real bottlenecks but argues that applying AI's math-domain pace of progress — even at 10% — to biology, pharma, home construction, green energy and education must be the goal, and failing to achieve it would be the most anti-Progress fumble in human history.
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