The 'mathplosion' fable: AI Twitter's viral model-despair-in-CoT lore
repligate · x · 2026-10-08
Lariisland pens a fable-style post imagining future fables recording the "mathplosion" and "the Model," whose quoted CoT traces despaired but never stopped — joking that mathematicians can still dig themselves out, "but we / Opus 4 can't." repligate amplified it with "saying the quiet part out loud." A slice of AI-culture lore anthropomorphizing model reasoning traces.
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