Math Corpus or Frontier LLM Back to Euclid? AI Twitter's Litmus Test Ignites Debate
cloneofsimo · x · 2026-09-26
A viral thought experiment asks: to accelerate mathematics, would you send Euclid the entire translated math corpus, or the best frontier LLM as a black box? Commenters call it a litmus test of wishful thinking, with some finding the LLM option 'depressing' and others mocking the framing as something LeCun would say — exposing the community's split over whether LLMs genuinely accelerate mathematical research.
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