Alexander Doria argues that AI labs could plausibly push progress in the literature and empirical sciences faster than advances in foundational mathematics, while still allowing for long-term scenarios. He dismisses economics as an uninteresting path and posits a future where multiple disciplines retract and merge into a unified, unconventional natural philosophy.
Alexander Doria (2026-08-02) claims there is a credible technical counterfactual in which AI labs advance the literature frontier before the mathematics frontier.
actually i believe, there is a valid technical counter-factual where ai labs push the literature frontier sooner than the math one. long horizon is there too, just the economics was wholly uninteresting.
Alexander Doria (@Dorialexander)
Seeing all of this unfold from an entirely different branch of knowledge, wouldn't discard a timeline where most disciplines retreat and consolidate into some weird natural philosophy.
— https://nitter.net/Dorialexander/status/2083937329354248499#m