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The Day Humanity Lost Its Purpose and Found Its Soul
After hearing Cornell mathematician Stephen Strogatz describe ChatGPT solving some of the hardest problems in mathematics with elegance, Alex Lang asks a deeper question: what happens to human purpose when machines surpass us at everything we do? Drawing on the Tower of Babel, physicist Lawrence Krauss and a famous scene from Good Will Hunting, this essay argues that AI may strip away every purpose we have invented for ourselves, leaving only the one that mattered all along:

Alexander Lang
4 days ago8 min read
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