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According to the speaker, economists said they did not know the mathematics used in the work.
Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026
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“Unfortunately,”
“similar to the first paper on prompt engineering,”
“the economists are like,”
“we don't know any of this math.”Play from 54:58Report a misattribution
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