Physicist mourns as AI compresses the timelines of what's possible in math
kylekabasares · x · 2026-09-12
A former physicist turned AI researcher reflects emotionally on AI's advance in mathematics: things long deemed impossible or safely outside current capability horizons may have had those horizons compressed like an accordion. She asks how mathematics can survive as something beautiful — how kids can still fall in love with it for the sake of understanding.
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