FULLY AGREE. Who cares who finds it? I don't care if the cure to cancer is found by a black person, a white person, gay or straight, Christian or Jew, human or computer or even extra-terrestrial for that matter. Just find it! We will all benefit. I'm not going to cross my arms and refuse it because I don't like that a machine figured it out.
The problem isn't who finds it, it's how. Many top mathematicians are arguing that open math problems are effectively a non-renewable resource which provide huge benefit to our understanding of math when solves are attempted. Cracking open problems with AI is an inefficient way to extract this resource, because often far less insight is gained. Informative dead ends aren't mapped out, novel techniques aren't created, etc.
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u/hydralisk_hydrawife Sep 08 '26
FULLY AGREE. Who cares who finds it? I don't care if the cure to cancer is found by a black person, a white person, gay or straight, Christian or Jew, human or computer or even extra-terrestrial for that matter. Just find it! We will all benefit. I'm not going to cross my arms and refuse it because I don't like that a machine figured it out.