Sabine Hossenfelder turns an AI-dooms-math claim into a theoretical-physics joke
KeanuRave100 · reddit · 2026-07-22
A meme-style X screenshot turns Will Kinney’s “AI will be an extinction-level event for math” remark into a joke.
- Sabine Hossenfelder posts a brief rebuttal: “and theoretical physics is next.”
- The image frames the exchange as a tongue-in-cheek reaction to increasingly dramatic claims about AI replacing mathematics.
- It reads more like a circulating AI-community joke than a substantive technical argument.
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