What I find funny is people who think that metaphysics is real, even at the mild level of mathematical Platonism, but think that it can only ever be figured out

What I find funny is people who think that metaphysics is real, even at the mild level of mathematical Platonism, but think that it can only ever be figured out from our armchairs, that there's no way I could build a machine to do it for me. On the other hand, I find it pretty easily believable that we can receive compounding returns from advances in ML/AI. After all, pretty much as soon as we invent new techniques in computational statistics, the go-to fields needing to apply them are the other computational sciences: physics, chemistry, biology, medicine.