Mathematicians getting 'bitter lesson' pilled: a math community reckons with AI slop on arXiv
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-21
A discussion thread on AI shaking the mathematics community: the original poster says that after recent events involving Tsimerman, Tao, Buckmaster and others, plus "deformalized lean slop" flooding arXiv and a callous tenured-faculty response to postdoc struggles, they are for the first time ashamed to be a mathematician.
A quoted comment from Plinz argues mathematicians getting "bitter lesson pilled" hit them far more unexpectedly than it did AI researchers and programmers, who are still stuck between anger and bargaining — and asks whether physicists are next.
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