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Comment on Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf] (2004)

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The interesting context: 1) this has nothing to do with LLMs 2) this is a pdf of a handwritten letter and 3) this was written by the unabomber

Yup. Few here read the article before jumping to the AI conclusion. Even fewer even know what Freedom Club was all about.

But isn't AI technology?

I would like to also know the date.

Dec 2004

Well, thank you for the context of (2) and (3), but you’re dead wrong about (1), because Kaczynski was uniquely qualified to accurately predict LLMs, and here is the proof, complete with an analogy of headstone carving.

So this is our battle-cry: “Ted Kaczynski wasn’t wrong!”

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