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As someone with friends in the mathematics community, they've expressed similar sentiments.

I have to wonder if this is the equivalent of teleporting back in time and finding Marco Polo or any of those early explorers who traveled for the love of the game (and fame and money), and opening up Google Maps on your phone and showing them the zoomed out world. And showing them any island or village they could name.

by karahime7 hours ago|

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This is absurd and silly. Discovery doesn't go away because more new things are being discovered. This position only makes sense if you make an arbitrary cut point where some instances "don't count". If you were to go back to scientists or mathematicians several hundred years ago and tell them that one day science would be done by tens of millions of full time researchers around the globe, often working in teams, some of them might also bemoan the loss of the "hero scientist" as any commoner could now participate. But science and math have only benefited from this, and this has increased, not decreased, the beauty and wonder in these fields.

by reasonableklout6 hours ago|

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It is not the same because the act of problem solving for discovery is now to be done exclusively by machines, as humans are no longer remotely competitive.

If you read the linked article, the author goes into more detail about how doing mathematics also has been an act of communication with past and present human mathematicians. This is very much true when math and science are done by millions of human researchers, but not so when it is done by massive swarms of agents at a couple labs.

I am sure science and math will benefit in the sense of solving more problems than ever before. But you are not really understanding the agony of the humans caught in the change.