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> greatly accelerated production of certain parts of math should increase the demand for people to do the remaining parts

So the pie just gets larger? Large enough to outpace the displacement? I am gonna wait for this to generalize then, looking forward to AI giving us more software developers, mathematicians, etc. The economic laws have been broken. It's an infinite money glitch, as they used to call it.

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It is a largely romanticised idea that pops up here now and then. Meanwhile Anthropic just put up a post saying they are getting closer to replacing people in their own company. That's the objective.

I wonder how many mathematicians even truly understand any of the latest research which is only going to increase in output. It will be impossible to keep up unless you slow AI down (not happening).

Edit: Anthropic blog https://www.anthropic.com/research/employment-at-anthropic

> Meanwhile Anthropic just put up a post saying they are getting closer to replacing people in their own company.

The goals of transhumanists go quite a bit further than just replacing people in companies.

https://www.google.com/search?q=anthropic+transhumanism

Nice source. Transhumanism and believing in AI consciousness does not mix well. We are already being told how we should and shouldn't treat AI. Someone who wants to use AI to boost the abilities of people, puts people first and treats AI as a tool.

Precisely. They are not making tools for us. That is just a stepping stone to their actual goal and you have to wonder whether it is good to give people with such goals access to large amounts of money and data.

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