littmath on Jacobian Conjecture: Misaligned Incentives Led to Overlooked Counterexample; Cheap Attention in AI Era Will Change Research
littmath · x · 2026-07-22
Mathematician littmath comments on why the Jacobian Conjecture persisted despite a simple counterexample: misaligned incentives—finding a counterexample yields little reward while effort is risky. He argues this allocation made sense when resources were scarce, but now that attention is cheap (AI era), we'll see more such cases.
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