Amid the 'mathpocalypse,' does comparing math to the arts actually persuade?
littmath · x · 2026-10-09
After AI's blow to mathematics (dubbed the mathpocalypse), some comfort researchers by comparing math to the arts. Cartoonist Zach Weiner is sympathetic as a philosophical proposition and to people's suffering, but doubts it's a good argument to convince anyone outside math.
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