[ExI] The week that changed math forever

[John Clark]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 7:04 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 8, 2026, 5:53 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>  >> Quote from a maths professor -
>> "Personally, this is where I stop calling AI a tool. A tool doesn't do in
>> one release what the best humans do in a lifetime."
>>
>
> *> A human being might walk 100,000 miles in their lifetime.*
> *A jet flying at 600 mph, if it could do that constantly, would cover that
> distance in about a week. And yet, a jet remains a tool.*
>


*A tool doesn't have philosophical agency but AI does, as the Hugging Face
incident vividly illustrates. You underestimate AI at your peril. *

* John K Clark*
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