Trillions in compute later, AI produced the antithesis of Erdős' THE BOOK
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-30
Mathematician Paul Erdős imagined THE BOOK, containing the most elegant proof of every theorem. The quip: after trillions of dollars of compute, we've produced its antithesis — LLM proofs as bloated, graceless machines.
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