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Is it possible they feel threatened their jobs are at stake?
by phyzix5761 5mo ago
Is it possible they feel threatened their jobs are at stake?
- tptacek 5mo agoAre they? The jobs of programmers are definitely at stake; at any given time there's some fixed amount of software that can be consumed. Mathematics research doesn't have an economic buyer. If you raise the complexity floor for discovery, you reduce the annual productivity of a researcher, but that might not matter to the field.
- internet_points 5mo agoI don't think current mathematician's jobs are at stake, as much as the field itself, if LLMs take all the "easy" problems that phd students would try to learn by solving on their own. Mathematics is susceptible to the same ladder-pulling situation that we see with junior programmers and LLMs.