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Mohamed Sabba @ma_sabba · Aug 4 I am reminded of a very memorable quote on MathSE. [quoted MathSE answer card] 157 Mathematics takes place at different time-scales. If you can solve a problem in 5 minutes that others need an hour to solve, you can probably get a good job. If you can solve a problem in a month that others might need a year to solve, you will probably do well as a graduate student. But if you can solve a problem in 10 years that nobody else can solve in a lifetime, you could be a great mathematician. Share Cite Follow answered Aug 5, 2016 at 17:32 Robert Israel 476k 28 378 723 Mahdi Ch. (bluesky:@m...) @mah... · Aug 4 This AI era dangerously disincentivizes long-term work in mathematics. Nobody would want to dedicate a year or longer to an outstanding challenge. You have a constant worry that you wake up any day and learn an internal model or... [cut off]
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Tweet by Mohamed Sabba quoting a 2016 MathOverflow/MathSE answer by Robert Israel about mathematics happening at different timescales, in reply to a quote-tweet by Mahdi Ch. worrying that the AI era disincentivizes long-term mathematical work.