mathematics

“The last, I think, 20, 25 years, almost all of the major breakthroughs have occurred by people coming in with ideas from psychology or from mathematics. And basically introducing these into economics.”

“It definitely seems plausible, but there's a lot of other concerns there where it needs to It needs to be able to, like, actually do experiments, and get data, and interact with the real world for a lot of these in a way that does not need to happen at all for…”

“That math is very much a leading edge indicator of what the market might be interested in.”

“And then I read a lot of these discourses on the math solutions, and there's kind of these claims where if it can solve all math, you can predict anything. And I just think that that's a huge, huge logical leap, which is not clear to me that is, is, is, is, is…”

“One thing I always say about a model result is, like, you cannot evaluate it except in retrospect, and like, this is also true of human mathematics. Like, sometimes a problem we thought was really important or would require really deep new ideas does not, and …”

“So there's definitely also, like, slop coming from non-experts, but that I kind of actually don't see as a net negative. Like, ok, there's a lot of, now there's a lot of, like, documents on the internet one might have to comb through to figure out if a problem…”

“At least for me the point of an open problem is it's, like, supposed to measure your failure to understand something. So it's kind of like a benchmark.”

“I think a lot of what we educate people for is, like, pretty robust changes in the nature of the world. Like I think the reason to learn math has always been, like, to think clearly and, like, better understand the world, and, like, presumably that's something…”

“So I think some of the results we've seen have had kind of the flavor of, like, you know, you kind of take some known techniques and apply them in maybe a clever way, or you I don't know, they've kind of been some kind of results I would characterize as, like,…”

“Along, I mean, of course models are going to help us produce exponentially more mathematics, but they also make it much easier to absorb it and right now, okay, it's still a bit of a challenge back and forth, but I think it's, for me at least much, much faster…”

“The ability of someone who's not working on math is, like, their literal job all the time to, like, understand what's going on and, like, you know, learn about some of the mysteries they might have wondered about will go up quite a lot. Also, you know, if you'…”

“A lot of these behaviors that we're describing mathematically, like backtracking, or kind of starting again, I mean, these are not really specific to mathematics. I mean, we're seeing them specifically in mathematics in these examples, but kind of, they're gen…”