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ballmerpoint • yesterday at 4:46 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> If some tech bro can't do the research in an afternoon with an agent, it's not worth doing at all, let alone worth paying a PhD for a tenured lifetime job to do.

The OpenAI math dump showed that it’s not worth paying hundreds of PhD-years if a tech bro can do it with an agent.


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senderista • yesterday at 7:00 PM

The value of math does not consist in providing yes/no answers to conjectures.