What seems to me like a useful thought experiment:
If access to solving difficult technical problems in your academic subfield became democratized, would you be happy or apprehensive?
I think this reveals something important about the nature of the area.
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If access to solving difficult technical problems in your academic subfield became democratized, would you be happy or apprehensive?
I think this reveals something important about the nature of the area.
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E.g. every mathematician gets access to a Terence Tao problem solver available by text anytime.
(Btw, that's *not* obtainable just by time, dedication, etc.)
A guess is that most scholars in these fields would be thrilled if much of their current "work" disappeared.
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Democratizing the solution technology (e.g. with a very smart AI) would change those dynamics.
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The question, "What, actually, do you truly want to know, by whatever means?" is a useful question, and not one that all scientists equally have an answer for.
Suppose you could answer many more questions but people would be much less involved in reasoning, would that be good?
Would having an oracle be good?
Would they be satisfied or even happy that we the field can now do much more and move faster? I would! :)
Would it make you more productive? Almost surely.
Would it make you happier with your work? Not clear: you might work on harder problems and be just as frustrated…
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