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- OpenAI announced a model solving ten open math problems, deemed important by mathematicians.
- People will use various coping mechanisms to downplay the impact, but each will be refuted by reality.
- Common copes include: directing AIs, teaching AI discoveries, canonizing results, becoming students of AI math, requiring human understanding, comparing to chess, and continuing math socially.
- Refutations: AIs will exceed humans in taste, teaching, and architecture; frontier math will become too vast for humans; firms removing humans from the loop will outcompete; chess is self-contained while math drives science.