2026-10-08 00:30 UTC
“A lot of the reason why people do pure math, even though it pays so much less than industry, is because you get to author your own creative contributions and then give them to a community that appreciates them for their intellectual beauty,” Chu said. “This environment where mathematical discourse is centered around machines talking and humans listening, I don’t think it’s a very attractive one.”
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@darkuncle@infosec.exchange 2026-10-08 00:31
“There’s nothing rewarding or interesting or fun about offloading their cognition to a machine, they argue.” ^^^ BINGO.
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@JustBr0wzing@mastodon.world 2026-10-08 09:55
@darkuncle@infosec.exchange "The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics" - GH Hardy