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A group of 10,000 human mathematicians would not cooperate effectively immediately when tasked with solving the Navier–Stokes problem.
Dwarkesh Patel · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“If like tomorrow you hire 10,000 mathematicians and you're like solve this, solve Navier-Stokes,”
“they're not they're not going to be able to like cooperate effectively.”
“At least not off the bat,”Play from 18:44Report a misattribution
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