alt Hacker News> Nothing is stopping these folks from continuing to study the problems
My understanding is they are? And literally everything in this world is based around incentives. If you say “well you can continue to work on understanding, but your kids are going to starve” that’s not nothing.
Replies
robryan • yesterday at 10:11 PM
A lot of this would be public funding. If AI is reducing the need for mathematicians in an area it makes sense to fund it less and fund something else that isn't solved.
It boggles my mind. Why cure cancer? The cancer researchers will be out of a job and their kids are going to starve!