Math cannot be the clean line for keeping ordinary people from using AI
RexDouglass · x · 2026-07-26
- Rex Douglass argues that math cannot simply be used as a clean boundary to keep ordinary people from using AI.
- His point is that the definition of “slop” becomes slippery: it cannot just mean there are mistakes, that a tool was used, or that the author self-reviewed the work.
- In the quoted reply, another user adds that mathematics itself often tolerates long periods of failed conjectures and bad strategies, so its standards for “wrong” are not as straightforward as they seem.
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