AI is making mathematicians feel like their entire belief system is obsolete
signulll · x · 2026-09-12
signull compares what AI is doing to mathematicians today to walking into a devout church and declaring the whole belief system obsolete — and predicts the same crisis of professional identity will eventually hit everyone.
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