Math is an oral tradition, not a canon: machines can eat the canon but miss the point
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-08
The quoted take: academic math is really an oral tradition, a culture and way of thinking — from outside it just looks like a canon. Machines can cannibalize the canon and seemingly enhance it, but the canon is not the point. RexDouglass endorses the view as the crux of debates on AI and mathematical research.
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