The beige / slightly faded Claude design trend is atrocious.

You’re conflating two ways of understanding “credit”. One version is what the tool gets, an honest description that the tool solved it. The other is a concept used in the math community to divvy up job opportunities.

Jobs will come and go. I'ts their nature. What makes you treat job over pursuit of knowledge. It is lowly and unbecoming.

There’s not going to be anyone to understand the pursued knowledge when this job gets killed off, which means you’re supporting the reduction of knowledge. That is what’s “unbecoming”.

This job based pursuite of knowledge is impure. Drop it.

Do you understand anything about how the career works, or are you just cheering on the death of things you don’t understand?

I cheer for a path that opens up the future wider for knowledge.

That knowledge won’t be accesible to people who haven’t trained in understanding mathematics. This is just a fact about the human mind. By killing off this profession you will be making it almost impossible for a large number of people to attain that.

I don't think I am.

Probably because you don’t actually know how the culture of mathematics maintains the capacity for humans to learn mathematics.

I apologize to Dan Abramov for venting my frustrations about things outside of either of our control and unfairly using him as a punching bag. He seems to be an intelligent person and I hope he continues learning mathematics using whatever tools he sees fit, including AI. It was wrong of me to do this and I will take a break from this website for one week.

What do you want me to call it? I'm fine calling it your result if you want.

They accelerated zero learning. Read the blog.

No this guy demonstrated zero intelligence unless the word has already lost all meaning.

I think most people could not get this conjecture proven if given infinite time at the keyboard with the same chatbot. He demonstrated much more initiative and problem solving instinct than what a large majority of people are capable of. Have you seen people trying to trouble shoot a printer or a software issue? Often the answer is just to search Google and read some forum post and execute the steps and deal with any arising minimal obstacles. Still insurmountable to most.

I disagree. I see nothing creative about this guy’s efforts. The models will continue improving and soon his creative leaps of asking it to double check won’t be necessary.

It is a famous problem!!!!!!!!!! You literally understand nothing about the culture you’re stomping all over.

I may be wrong here but my impression is that surreal numbers in general are kind of a niche area that hasn’t enjoyed a ton of interest. Additionally, this specific conjecture did not have any “prizes” attached to it and was not on any list of famous problems I could find. It’s even difficult to Google. What precisely do you mean by it being a famous problem?

It’s a problem that someone could describe in a talk and attribute to a prominent mathematician and which would have resulted in significant career opportunities for having solved in 2021. You don’t understand this because you don’t care that you’re degrading the tiny chance people had to actually learn mathematics.

Edit I apologize to Dan Abramov for venting my frustrations about things outside of either of our control and unfairly using him as a punching bag. He seems to be an intelligent person and I hope he continues learning mathematics using whatever tools he sees fit, including AI. It was wrong of me to do this and I will take a break from this website for one week.

Since you respect Terence Tao, but not the general population of mathematicians, maybe you’ll read his blog posts which describe the ways your actions are detrimental to human striving.

I’ve replied to this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762433

You did not.

Edit I apologize to Dan Abramov for venting my frustrations about things outside of either of our control and unfairly using him as a punching bag. He seems to be an intelligent person and I hope he continues learning mathematics using whatever tools he sees fit, including AI. It was wrong of me to do this and I will take a break from this website for one week.

This is just fucking absurd.

I usually shit post on this website because it’s full of amoral idiots who just want to make a lot of money and don’t care about others, but I want to suggest to you that arguing using extreme analogies is almost never a persuasive rhetorical device. The other person almost always just sees the way it doesn’t accurately apply to the situation.

I apologize to Dan Abramov for venting my frustrations about things outside of either of our control and unfairly using him as a punching bag. He seems to be an intelligent person and I hope he continues learning mathematics using whatever tools he sees fit, including AI. It was wrong of me to do this and I will take a break from this website for one week.

Be more specific. Is he a bad person for having an amateur interest in mathematics, for exploring that interest through language models, or for writing a blog post about his experience?