Sandberg cites Jacobian conjecture and Navier-Stokes blow-ups as brute facts without 'why'
anderssandberg · x · 2026-09-13
Responding to the complaint that AI solves without compression, Sandberg offers real counterexamples: the Jacobian conjecture counterexample and a Navier-Stokes blow-up construction, obtained without really knowing why. Some solutions may have no good reason at all—brute facts—undermining the assumption that compressive explanation is the sole value of mathematics.
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