Ex-AAA artist rebukes AI crowd mocking mathematicians: 'we went through this years ago'
repligate · x · 2026-10-10
After Andrew Curran urged people not to mock mathematicians struggling in this moment—"your field will have its turn, and you'll feel remorse"—a former AAA games artist turned AI practitioner pushed back: many doing the mocking were themselves disrupted years ago and didn't react childishly; the behavior is elitist and harmful.
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