RL researcher Csaba Szepesvári: math's impossibility theorems teach humility before AI debates
CsabaSzepesvari · x · 2026-09-14
RL researcher Csaba Szepesvári argues that math, above all, teaches humility—pointing to incompleteness theorems, impossibility results, and the history of thinkers stuck inside their own axioms. The mathematicians he admires learned this lesson long before AI, a quiet counterpoint to today's confident AGI forecasts.
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