2026-08-06 13:56 UTC
@tao@mathstodon.xyz I think there is something inherently social about exposition. Grant Sanderson recently said something about this in his podcast appearance with Dwarkesh Patel. That we will probably want human curators and teachers no matter how advanced the AI gets.
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@Jmj@hachyderm.io 2026-08-06 17:37
@torgeirlysen@mathstodon.xyz @tao@mathstodon.xyz Paging @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz You end up with an infinite regression of explainer bots to translating the frontier down to "human" level understanding. At the limit the explanation will be your brain is too small but it's really cool. This is the most positive version of a superhuman AGI future; we end up being pets that the AI likes enough to keep around and try explaining things to us. It's an unlikely outcome, we want to communicate with cats/dogs/dolphins/chimps etc, but have little interest in explaining high order number theory. And it's not even conceptually possible with ants or bacteria.