Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

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I mean, hasn't it always been this way? If something valuable is within reach and you disclose it, someone else might reach for it?

Just because the length of the arm is longer with an AI org doesn't mean it's somehow fundamentally a different system.

The future is that if you don't use AI your work is a lot easer to reach against someone else who has it.

That dude hand writing code with punchcards can be lapped by a 20yo with python, what's different?

It sounds like a fancy way of saying kids will forget how to do math if they use calculators. The flattening of the space makes it hard to find new problems deemed significant? Maybe that went over my head, I’ll concede that point.

> We have now seen that even the rumor of someone working on a problem can trigger a massive amount of AI-powered effort to flatten it before the original research project has time to reach its full potential.

In other words, the "right" people need to solve it: the mathematicians who made it their job and not the people working to push AI models forward?

Struggling to understand how a solution to a millennium problem like this isn't a net positive. Presumably Open AI employs mathematicians in these efforts anyway. And I can think of far worse uses of the AI compute resources.