Formalize All Human Math in a Year? Bold AI Plan Gets Eric Weinstein's Backing
AccBalanced · x · 2026-09-06
Jared Lichtman argues that with sufficient funding and compute, a coordinated effort among academia, frontier labs, philanthropies, and government could formalize all known human mathematics within a year — likening it to the Human Genome Project or AlphaFold. Eric Weinstein amplified the claim, admitting his earlier skepticism was a failure of imagination and praising Lichtman's track record in mathematical formalization. The post is a vision statement rather than a worked-out technical roadmap.
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