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It would be a terrible waste of resources to spend millions of
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formal libraries fulfill the community's mathematical goals. Within
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of formal libraries. This will significantly extend their ability to
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Decoherence is the accumulation of locally valid but mutually
incompatible or redundant models within a system. It causes the cost
of change to be dominated by translating among those models and
preventing unintended side-effects. Decoherence grows relative to the
rate of change of a system, and it increases faster the more
decoherent a system is, resulting in runaway exponential growth. It
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decoherence both prevents AI from improving in a bubble and limits the
rate at which it can improve outside of it. However, it also
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SOMEONE BEHIND THE SOFTWARE (3 MINUTE READ) [12]

Good products carry something of the people who make them. The
industry often talks about software as if it comes out of a factory,
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WILL IT BE A GOLDEN AGE OR A DARK AGE FOR MATHEMATICS (AND SCIENCE)?
(23 MINUTE READ) [15]

Large language models have demonstrated remarkable abilities in
generating mathematical proofs. This could lead to a golden age where
a new generation of scientists is empowered, new STEM expertise is
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independent human scientific activity progressively weakening, the
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Terence Tao, one of the world's greatest living mathematicians, is
currently doing very little math. OpenAI's recent finding in the
mathematical field has left him feeling used, as he previously had a
good relationship with many employees at the company. Now, he sees
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