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robinhouston | on: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
In a way the most remarkable thing about this is that it isn't even at the top of the HN homepage. Even if this is a step up from what we've seen before, we're no longer astonished by the idea that AI can make significant advances in mathematics and computer science.
antirez | parent | next
This is not at the top as it is actively flagged by people that can't psychologically cope with the advances of AI. Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite.
tomhow | root | parent | next
It wasn't heavily flagged. It was pulled down by the flamewar detector due to the large number of comments, and it slid under the radar due to only hitting the front page during overnight hours on Friday night/Saturday morning. It still spent 10 hours on the front page, but all during off peak hours. I've now created a new copy of the post so it can have prime time exposure.
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Chance-Device | root | parent | next
> people that can't psychologically cope with the advances of AI

Yes. And there are many of them. I wonder what would help them come to terms with it. Seriously, people are going to be grieving over this. Loss of identity, loss of social standing, ideas of entire future lives that will now never happen. The greatest crime people may hold AI guilty of is taking away their dreams.

lacy_tinpot | root | parent | next
It's given many more an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.
matteoraso | root | parent
People have had to deal with getting their jobs automated away for centuries. None of this is new, and perhaps reminding ourselves of this is the best way to cope.
Chance-Device | root | parent | next
I understand your sentiment, but I think this really is something different. This isn’t a craft going away, or even an industry being replaced, it’s potentially everything we do. It’s the ground being pulled away beneath people’s feet, everyone, everywhere all at once. I think the vacuum it leaves in people’s lives needs to be filled with something, and I haven’t heard any good ideas about this or how the transition should be managed at all.
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zeven7 | root | parent
This is the sentiment of people who haven't accepted that this is in fact something very different from what people have seen in the past.
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tuesdaynight | root | parent | next
I like your comments and agree with a lot of your points, including parts of this one. That said, please don't go to this route. A lot of the doomerism comes from financial insecurity fears. Try to remember that a lot of people are subconsciously afraid of losing their homes. I know that it is pretty hard to ignore them, but try to engage with people that do not dismiss 100% of AI accomplishments.
rwz | root | parent
> A lot of the doomerism comes from financial insecurity fears. Try to remember that a lot of people are subconsciously afraid of losing their homes. I

I think recognizing and accounting for your own personal biases is one of the requirements of the being an intellectually honest and rigorous online discourse participant.

Things could be genuinely impressive and fascinating even when directly challenge your ego and material well being.

bencarmin | root | parent | next
This comment is about the tier of a Reddit atheist going to a funeral and telling a grieving family that "haha grandma is dead and there is no heaven".
lkey | root | parent | next
Forums change with the times, and this one never existed solely to burnish your ego.

Moreover, mister elite, you don't know why this press release was flagged.

I'm not sure why we should privilege your bitter speculation over more mundane possibilities.

simianwords | root | parent
[flagged]
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fg137 | root | parent | next
Didn't know I was part of an elite.
w4yai | root | parent
You're were for 4 months. That's what we're talking about. It used to be.
antonvs | root | parent | next
> Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite.

It was always mainly a website for employees of an elite.

matt_daemon | root | parent | next
It’s never been clear to me why the HN algorithm isn’t public. It’s obviously nowhere near as complex as something like Twitter, and of course isn’t a trade secret. The fact it’s private only furthers speculation like this.
BigTTYGothGF | root | parent | next
> Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite.

Never was.

dwb | root | parent | next
So condescending. “Can’t psychologically cope”? Can you hear yourself? There’s some advances, but we’re losing a lot too. Don’t get dazzled by the hype.
pistoriusp | root | parent | next
Interesting. I had no idea that a person could see what is flagged?
defrost | root | parent
If you page through the /newest listings you can see [flagged] and [flagged][dead] submissions.

eg. this: [flagged] A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies (economist.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131860

is clearly marked as flagged.

Unlike the current submission: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com) which isn't [flagged].

* https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

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ofjcihen | root | parent | next
Or maybe, just maybe, other people have different opinions than you?

Is that possible or is everyone else too common to have those?

bwfan123 | root | parent | next
> Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite

hah, sorry, we are plebs out here.

over_bridge | root | parent
Jokes on him. I'm a peasant and I've been here for years
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ltitu | root | parent
We cannot psychologically stand that Redis is hyped by OpenAI:

https://developers.openai.com/cookbook/examples/vector_datab...

How are the sales going?

halJordan | root | parent
If you're actively throwing away brand new greenfield research because it was generated by a computer at a company that stans industry-spanning software so that you can stay mad at your pet celebrity project, you might be the problem.
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saithound | parent | next
I don't think that's it. Multiple or my friends from the target audience (academic mathematicians) admitted to scrolling past because the title made it sound like a review of last month's contributions, instead of 10 new ones.
gbnwl | root | parent
There are articles with far fewer upvotes and comments ranking higher on the front page right now, despite being the same age or older than this one. HNs opaque ranking system at it again.
curt15 | parent | next
What about AI research itself? Is OpenAI close to automating its human staff out of a job?
zild3d | root | parent | next
> What about AI research itself? Is OpenAI close to automating its human staff out of a job?

It's more like they've already automated the parts of the jobs that the humans most closely thought of as the "their job"

ianm218 | root | parent | next
They and Anthropic have indicated that the models are substantially augmenting the research and doing large amounts of work autonomously at this point. Here is one of the many blog posts on it [1]. Many people would dismiss this as "marketing" so take it for what you will.

My guess from following this stuff quite closely is that these companies are still a couple years away from fully autonomous research staff.

[1]. https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improveme...

yewenjie | root | parent
Yes, but they wouldn't publish that bit lest other companies steal the ideas.
gizmodo59 | parent | next
It’s also very very divided (x companies, oss vs not and other interests)
schleck8 | parent | next
This is one of the most impactful mathematical publications in history by all accounts

I think we've now hit a point where 99.9% of the population gloss over these types of AI advancements because of human competence being insufficient

No human could have published this because it requires paradigm shifts (e. g. Section 5) in multiple mathematical domains. Mastering one of them to this degree is rare, mastering 3+ pretty much non existent for humans.

jofzar | parent
Honestly just a bit burnt out on posts like this