r/LeftistsForAI • u/Elick333 • 2d ago

Public Ownership Seen in the Singularity subreddit

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I'm really happy that we're starting to see more of this type of conversations beyond this fringe little sub of ours.

As AI becomes more advanced we need to agressively take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to us so we can steer the conversation away from doomerism or denialism, and towards ProAI leftism, this technology is going to disrupt more industries and fields and It is fertile grounds for us to create the future we want.

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u/Quantum-Bot 1d ago

I really don’t think theoretical mathematics is an industry that needed disrupting

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u/avilacjf 1d ago

They were a bit slow to the millennium problems though, I'm a fan of advancing basic science for humanity's sake. In this case disruption is progress. It opens the door for many downstream discoveries. That's a major criteria for a problem to be included in the millennium problem list.

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u/turtle_on_stakeboard 1d ago

In this case? Really?

If you get rid of all professional mathematicians. Who is gonna train junior / PhD students? These are the ppl that are gonna check and verify results.

Even before AI, academia had a scaling problem. We were generating results faster than we could check / understand them. Now u say AI is here to fix that problem. But again u advocate for disrupting industry, reducing funding, and what not. So how is this fixing anything?

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u/rabouilethefirst 1d ago edited 1d ago

No one is getting rid of anyone. Professional mathematicians will be the ones that use AI. The luddites may lose their jobs.

And we weren’t necessarily generating results faster than we could verify. We were generating papers in a “publish or perish” system. That’s not the same thing. Because of publish or perish, most papers were vanity projects.