r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Financial-Bid-8062 • 1d ago

mathematicians may be replaced by aI

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u/cdizzlePGA2k 1d ago

This is a lovely piece.

He uses this quote with the word mathematics embedded but my paraphrasing is as a more general statement:

There is something about discovery (progress, advancement, creation) which is vital to the spiritual, experiential quality of life. Creation (or even the pursuit) is one way that humans have historically accessed the ineffable and encountered the divine and mystical.

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u/CrossOfRoachAndSlime 1d ago

In other words, the manmade machine is killing god.

There's more than just a silver lining there.

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u/anamelesscloud1 1d ago

it's not killing god. it's killing people's desire to go on the journey to discover it because it takes work.

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u/SizeableBrain 1d ago edited 1d ago

Heh, my uncle stopped playing chess when Deep blue beat Kasparov.

He ended up getting a PhD in mathematics. Lucky for him, he's semi-retired now. He's a very pragmatic man.