Math has fully morphed into biology: million-dollar projects, unread papers, authorship fights
TZahavy · x · 2026-09-12
A viral quip argues mathematics has become just like biology: multi-million-dollar projects, papers nobody reads, massive unread supplements, pretty promotional art, vicious authorship fights, and claims of curing cancer.
The joke lands equally on large-scale AI research, where money, author count, and marketing often outweigh actual readership and verification.
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