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by aldousd666 889 days ago
This is fascinating and inspiring progress! What's crazy to me is how many people are looking to put stakes in the ground in front of this, claiming breathlessly before anyone can speak, that this isn't real AI progress or this isn't actually doing it how humans supposedly do, and implying that therefore it's not a big deal. I'm sorry to break to you folks, this is just another sign post moment. One more event to mark our place in history as we sail on. And when we look back on it, there isn't going to be all the disclaimers people are trying to throw down now. We had imagenet and deep blue, we had alphazero, alphago, GPT4, alphafold, and now we have AlphaGeometry.As DJ Khaled likes to point out, this is.. Another one
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This reads like another "edge lord" or "karma farming "comment. Seems to be more and more frequent here lately.

The point of the forum is that people who are interested in these things can discuss them together openly. People are having discussions about the way they interpret the paper and what they think it means. You seem to be telling those people that's pointless and we should just accept this as a breakthrough because you told us so. Which I think goes against the spirit of this forum and the ability for people to look at the world with an objective lens.

If this work is as good as you say it is, and it very well might be, it will stand on it's own no matter what people say about it. Time will tell if this was meaningful or not.