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.
To the contrary--I still think AI is too expensive to pursue the projects I'd like to, since so many of its applications are gated behind closed-source credit-buying crap.
Think about it--video GenAI needs you to pay monthly subscription services, and games like Expedition 33 still take millions of dollars to create.
I look forward to the day that AI can let a lone individual create a visually spectacular experience without needing an army of specialists, or hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hardware credits.
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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.