AI coldly solving math's life work: pain will hit more scientific fields soon
steipete · x · 2026-10-08
zachtratar argues that the math community's pain of watching life's work get coldly "solved" by AI will soon spread to more scientific fields — "heroism has been replaced by compute." He thinks solving these problems benefits society but understands the researchers' grief. Quoted researcher @orvietoantonio is harsher: mass-releasing hundreds of solutions that could have been inspiring stories (like Andrew Wiles') turns math into a race won by concentrated resources, which he calls disgusting.
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