The math doom atmosphere comes from Twitter, not from math itself
_onionesque · x · 2026-09-22
Continuing the thread, the author argues the atmosphere of doom around AI and math comes largely from Twitter's menagerie of meltdowns and onlookers piling on — a representation of math that got confused with math itself. Math is about creating conceptual universes, not just routine proving, so it isn't conquered.
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