Researcher pushes back: solving problems humans couldn't crack does contain insights
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-08
Rex Douglass argues in a debate that systematic AI problem-solving inevitably becomes computational formalization and thus algorithmic search in all its flavors. He calls the goalpost-moving around "it's just search, no insights" absurd — the engineering and auto-formalization required to crack problems humans couldn't solve contains real insights by any reasonable standard.
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