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As someone who studied math in grad school as part of a PhD program, worked at a hedge fund and went on to work on software and applied math, I call bullshit on this.

Math and Logic is just low-dimensional symbol manipulation that computers can easily do. You can throw data at them and they’ll show you theories that involve vectors of 42,000 variables while Isaac Newton had 4 and Einstein had 7 with Levi-Civita calculus. In short, what you consider “reasoning”, while beautiful in its simplicity, is nevertheless crude approximations to complex systems, such as linear regression or least squares.

3 days ago AI predicted fluid dynamics better than humans: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231120170956.h...

Google’s AI predicts weather now faster and better than Current systems built by humans: https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/ai-is-outperforming...

AlphaZero based on MCTS years ago beat Rybka and all human-built systems in chess: https://www.quora.com/Did-AlphaZero-really-beat-Stockfish

And it can automate science and send it into overdrive: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/science/analysis-how-ai-is-...



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