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Jan Kulveit @jankulveit

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Jan Kulveit @jankulveit · 4h
Yes. It would be nice if people stopped the idiotic chess-maths comparisons; maths is a key to understanding, understanding is key to power. Yes, there is also fun and joy, similarly to eg mountaineering, but these do not translate to power in the same way.

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Stanislav Fort @stanislavfort · 20h
Replying to @madiator
the big difference between math and chess is that chess doesn't really matter, but we believe math does. chess is a game people play for fun. math has been thought of as a vital tool in our ...
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Tweet from Jan Kulveit (@jankulveit, reposted by Dylan Hadfield-Menell) arguing chess-math comparisons are misguided because math is key to understanding and power while chess is just fun, quote-tweeting Stanislav Fort's (@stanislavfort) reply making a similar point (partially cut off).

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Stanislav Fort @stanislavfort
the big difference between math and chess is that chess doesn't really matter, but we believe math does. chess is a game people play for fun. math has been thought of as a vital tool in our ever great understanding and the resulting mastery of the physical universe => absolute performance wins, not just who the best human is.
1:29 PM · Aug 2, 2026 · 7,263 Views
8 replies, 2 reposts, 79 likes, 2 bookmarks

Mahesh Sathiamoort... @madiat... · 20h
Yeah. Over time AI will be way way better but I am just saying we will still be listening to human mathematicians.
5 replies, 7 likes, 2.4K views

Prince Ali @PaulBunyan1976 · 2h
I disagree.
You can use math to do vital things but mostly it is a game smart people play for fun.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Full Stanislav Fort (@stanislavfort) tweet arguing chess doesn't matter while math is believed vital to understanding and mastering the physical universe, with replies from Mahesh Sathiamoorthy (@madiator) predicting humans will still listen to human mathematicians, and Prince Ali (@PaulBunyan1976) disagreeing that math is mostly a game smart people play for fun.

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