Model CoT laments mathematicians reduced to 'raw data' caretakers, fueling AI-debate discourse
aiamblichus · x · 2026-10-27
Philosopher Dan Williams admitted it's "psychologically difficult to internalise what this progress means for the future of intellectual work," and aiamblichus replied with a model CoT that dramatizes exactly that.
The CoT laments mathematicians Gross and Jaffe becoming "caretakers for machine-generated results," OpenAI's "raw research data" framing with no academic credit, a Simons Foundation donation read as "grief counseling for theorists," and decade-long theorem work reduced to footnotes. Whether genuine reasoning or dramatization, it captures the discourse mood about AI's psychological toll on academia.
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