Math community mocked for shifting goalposts: "If AI can solve it, it wasn't math"
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-08
The author mocks the math community's goalpost-shifting on AI: after decades wanting solutions to hard problems, mathematicians now claim AI-solvable problems "aren't real math" and that they don't even want to know if it's possible. He likens it to a god-of-the-gaps argument—math is whatever humans are doing; when AI solves something, that thing retroactively "wasn't math."
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