Who will be the GothamChess of math? Wills calls for daily YouTube breakdowns of new proofs
josh_wills · x · 2026-10-08
Engineer Josh Wills wonders who will become the GothamChess of math — he wants a daily YouTube channel breaking down whatever the RSI and similar institutes discover overnight, narrated with chess-commentator drama: "And here, the model... INVOKES THE AXIOM OF CHOICE!" A playful take on how the accelerating pace of mathematical discovery (increasingly AI-assisted) could spawn a new genre of popular explainer content.
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