From SETI@Home to math-proof mining: the next frontier may be the computational universe
amasad · x · 2026-07-29
Drawing a SETI@Home analogy, the post argues that people may soon donate compute not to search for aliens, but to search for math proofs.
It frames this as a new era of exploration: after mapping Earth and exploring space, the next frontier could be the vast computational universe of algorithms, programs, proofs, and designs that AI agents can search.
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