AI meets math: defensive mathematicians and mean technical people
kjgeras · x · 2026-09-20
Two observations on recent AI progress in mathematics: some mathematicians are surprisingly defensive of traditional problem-solving — the author saw math as a meritocratic field, but now it's "yes, you're solving the problems, but not the way we approved of." Meanwhile, some other technical people are strikingly mean to the mathematicians.
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