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It boggles my mind. Why cure cancer? The cancer researchers will be out of a job and their kids are going to starve!
by ThalesX 20d ago
It boggles my mind. Why cure cancer? The cancer researchers will be out of a job and their kids are going to starve!
- daveguy 20d agoThe point isn't what happens after something is solved. Where is the motivation for humans to study/find a potential solution if your kids are going to starve while you do it? These things can brute force problems that have a clearly and feasibly searchable answer, but they can't make creative leaps. It will be a severe dark ages for mathematics if humans stop contributing.
- ifethereal 20d agoMaybe an analogy of "why not solve all medical problems at once" is closer. We absolutely want to, of course. But you extinguish an industry and the systems of training that supply it. It's hard to know if letting it go that way is right.
- anthonypasq 20d agomethinks mathematicians may have a warped perception of their own importance.
- boron1006 20d agoYou have misunderstood. I have a the cure for cancer. Simply kill the host. Does it work? Yes. Have you learned anything from it? No.
- gdsimoes 20d agoWhy not cure cancer and take care of the researchers’ kids?
- int_19h 19d agoWhy not indeed? AI should be the commons.