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Abelian's avatar

I am an 10th grader toiling till 2 in the dark of the night to understand things like convexity, elliptic curves & Abel-Ruffini theorem. Is all that useless? Is developing ingenuity unnecessary? This AI crap has been source of an astounding existential crisis, I seem to have no will to go on, Granville's video ended almost all hope, THIS SUCKS. Now, I do, still possess an immense desire to learn math, yet the possibility of proving hard theorems is too seductive for me to leave. Now my question is what the heck should I learn? What is important? Should I content myself with the passive nature of post-AI mathematics? Or perhaps retreat into a forest and do mathematics alone? My concern is not whether mathematicians are replaced by AI in my lifetime, but whether mathematicians can be replaced at all.

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JG's avatar

Thanks Michael, I'm a long time reader, first time poster. That was a great read.

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