Mathematicians plot to publish 'decoy Millennium Problems' to misdirect AI labs
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-30
A meme circulating in AI circles: mathematicians will publish a list of 'decoy' Millennium Problems they don't care about—like Collatz or whether ζ(7) is a normal number—to distract big AI labs while secretly working on Schanuel's conjecture. A satirical jab at frontier labs' obsession with famous math problems.
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