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Intuition would be it's going to be quite

the opposite where it seems much worse for

the math people than the word people.

And what people have told me is that they

think within three to five years the AI models

will be able to solve all the US math Olympiad problems.

And that would shift things quite a bit.

In the early 21st century it's way too biased towards the math people.

I don't know if it's a French Revolution

thing or a Russian sort of Straussian secret

cabal control thing where you have to prioritize it.

But that's the thing that seems deeply unstable

and that's what I would bet on getting reversed

where it's like isn't it like the place where math ability.

It's the thing that's the test for everything.

It's like if you want to go to medical

school, okay we weed people out through physics and

calculus and I'm not sure that's really

correlated with your dexterity as a neurosurgeon.

I don't really want someone operating on my

brain to be doing prime number factorizations

in their head while they're operating on my brain or something like that.

And so in the late 80s early 90s I had sort

of a chess bias because I was a pretty good

chess player and so my chess bias was you

should just test everyone on chess ability

and that should be the gating factor.

Why even do math?

Why not just chess?

And that got undermined by the computers in 1997.

And isn't that what's going to happen to

math and isn't that a long over due rebalancing

of our society?