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https://maketecheasier.com/nasa-still-maintains-some-of-the-...

In 2015, Popular Mechanics reported on the retirement of Larry Zottarelli, the last original Voyager engineer still working on the project. He was 80 years old. The article noted that keeping Voyager alive required knowledge of old languages and systems, including assembly language and Fortran.

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From the announcement:

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We reached out to external experts and asked them to act as shepherds, organizing groups to understand the new results. They advised three different release strategies: [...] For the physics result, form an external group of collaborators and defer to them on the release of materials. [...] The group requests that all communications with any and all members of the group regarding this effort be directed to the following email account: [email protected].
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Third paragraph from the end of TFA:

Mathematicians are both frustrated and excited by OpenAI’s work. Sarnak, for his part, said in an email that he won’t be satisfied that it’s “a Theorem” until humans check and understand all the details. But “the general feeling is one of relief,” Radziwiłł said. There are scores of results across not just number theory but also geometry and theoretical computer science that the proofs of quasi-Riemann will, in a swift stroke, establish as mathematical truths.

Comment · 13 days ago
> What am I missing?

Apparently that 40% is the lowest productivity boost over half a year reported by Anthropic in TFA and reproduced above by djoldman.

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Here's a chart of non-farm US labor productivity from 1947 to 2026:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB

Annual growth over that period has been ~2.2%, sometimes a little faster, sometimes a little slower. The doubling from 50 in 1982 to 100 in 2017 (35 years) averages to 2% per year.

Even if the overall productivity boost due to AI "only" turns out to be 40%, the lowest among your numbers, it's equivalent to 17 years of growth at 2% per year.

That's not exactly small.

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