Dev cheers AI disrupting math academia: r/math bans AI threads, "scooping" claims are nonsense
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-09
- Responding to debates about AI labs "scooping" mathematicians, the author argues the word is meaningless — there are no dibs on discoveries, citing Fodor.
- He argues the more this competition damages "professional mathematical/academic norms," the better: r/math banning AI threads and other dogma show those norms are ideologically captured and anti-science.
- His rhetorical jab: the people who didn't solve these problems shouldn't dictate how the labs operate.
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