The mathematical community as a whole is a superintelligent entity that no single mathematician comes close to replicating.

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  Because an individual is an expert in at most one thing, an LLM's broad shallow expertise lets them do things they could not do before, whereas an organisation only gets better at what it already did.

  Tao says the mathematical community as a whole is a superintelligent entity no single mathematician comes close to. Karpathy says an LLM benefits the individual far more than the organisation, because a person is an expert in at most one thing while an organisation only gets better at what it already did. If Tao is right about mathematics, the collective is the thing that would gain most.

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