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> This reads like a comment from 2025. LLMs are solving novel math problems and they successfully emulated a PS5, this week lol.

It's curious seeing "math" and "productivity" in the same sentence when the market assigns much less economic value to math than to other endeavors. The entire annual US federal budget for mathematics a mere ~$100M on average.

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> The entire annual US federal budget for mathematics a mere ~$100M on average.

I'm not sure how that's a relevant benchmark, considering that the federal budget represents the spending of a single specific political institution whose primary focus isn't related to math per se.

Given the extent to which the market at large is bidding up the prices of devices whose entire function is to do math very rapidly, I don't think the overall premise holds.

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