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tylerhou • yesterday at 4:41 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I do research on programming languages. There are many facts about programming languages that (1) nobody else knows and (2) I have not written down because I just haven’t had the time / opportunity.

The same happens all the time in mathematics.


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nilkn • today at 3:14 AM

Like when it happened in 1637?

calf • yesterday at 5:47 PM

I think his grain of truth is that human private knowledge is a) not special and AIs can/will do it too, and b) AIs will vastly outstrip human capacity for this type of knowledge.

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