alt Hacker NewsThe doom and mourning is that it's no longer their craft. Their involvement is on the threshold of no longer being useful. What does it mean for humans when the best their involvement accomplish is slowing down progress?
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Mourning is fine if it is temporary, however no man should dread their own future if they still have control of their life. This is the idea of unalienable rights and was enshrined hundreds of years ago. It seems to me that anyone dreading the future of their field failed to take a page out of their retirement strategy and diversify their own interests, i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_...
I was talking to a mathematician friend about this, and she was telling me that a lot of the proofs that have been produced in the past couple weeks don't have an application.
To me it begs the question: in a theoretical world where we don't have human mathematicians anymore, what is the point of these proofs if there's no human who actually understands it?
If the point of a lot of this math is only to expand the boundaries of human knowledge, it all seems kind of pointless.
Is AI at the stage that it can also point out all interesting things to study and then solve them? Otherwise humans would still be able and needed for progress.
This is a fundamental human need and it's being taken from everyone eventually, by design. It will take a generation to turn over and find new ways of being useful. Those who ran into this wall and could not safely reduce their income and retire/pivot to other fields, will be the coal miner oxy crisis of this generation.