Mathematicians' real fear: prestige loss as AI distills their results
panickssery · x · 2026-10-13
panickssery doubles down in his reply to davidbessis: mathematicians' complaint against OpenAI boils down to fear that their role becomes distilling hard-to-understand results (until that process is itself automated), eroding their prestige. His advice: rearrange the prestige hierarchy instead of attacking AI companies' motives.
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