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by buzzin_ 6 days ago
It's amazing that you can predict a counterexample to an open math problem, all without thinking.
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Yet they do.
My favourite quote on this subject... I forgot by who.

"They don't think, they only seem to think. And likewise, they won't replace the majority of human labor, they will only seem to do so."

Recalling "They're Made of Weights"
"If only we had a word for that process that happens before the words come out."

"Artist Formerly Known as Thinking"

Not really, a shitload of "open math problems" are bounded by constraints of simple text processing or heuristic search.

Much of math is just boring routine work.