AI math debate continues: conceptual revolutions take centuries, and can't be measured yet
lu_sichu · x · 2026-10-08
Continuing the AI-and-mathematics debate, lusichu clarifies he only used an easy progress metric and has no way to measure 'conceptual understanding', while holding that today resembles past conceptual revolutions that took centuries. His interlocutor argues problem-focus is myopia that worked only because problem progress and conceptual infrastructure advanced in lockstep.
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