The Fractal Frontier: AI may reveal the world is messier than human math prefers
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-07
Igor Carron builds on a quote from corsaren to coin the "Fractal Frontier": results like the n=17 square packing don't matter practically, but expose a fundamental messiness that human preference for neatness obscured. AI may show that many more problems resemble n=17 packing than n=4 — a provocative take on AI discovering counterintuitive structure in math.
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