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You're off by an order of magnitude at least. A mathematician does much more than just prove theorems. Let's start by teaching and administration duties.

And then you're off an order of magnitude of the efficacy of OpenAI. We don't know how much work of mathematicians is behind all these results, what's the real cost (which includes those problems they couldn't solve), etc.

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Oh I entirely agree! Mathematicians are full human beings.

But a soulless admin is not.

And they care only about the budget.

And the real danger here is that these large groups of blame avoidance mechanisms take at best half a look at the cost of an AI and the cost of a pre tenure track new assistant professor (or whatever), and they decide, oh maybe next year we can hire someone.

And then they do that again next year.

And then the next

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