Debate: Is it OK if the Frontier of Math Becomes Incomprehensible?
littmath · x · 2026-08-20
Responding to a claim that the math frontier will become ungraspable by humans, littmath noted it's trivial to generate correct but incomprehensible math via ZFC enumeration and asked to differentiate this from AI-generated math. Justin argued that as long as it yields helpful technologies, knowing math through its application rather than intrinsic aesthetics is acceptable.
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