Many "serious" mathematicians are aghast
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#2tl;dr for everyone: disrupt the conservative academic establishment*
*unspoken or unintended consequence being so that the oligarchy can seize the authority of intellectual credibility
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#4Which serious mathematicians?
There is a quotation about peer review. I'm assuming that's also made up.
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#5This was especially funny to watch during the Jacobian Conjecture announcement, where people on HN were waiting for "Lean proofs" and corroboration from other mathematicians for... a published counterexample to the Conjecture.
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#6I need to make the same post when someone finally RLs an LLM to get really good at performance engineering.
Many "serious" performance engineers are aghast
"Nooo the r00b0t can't make llvm faster and not tell us how!!! it has to make a commit to the open source!!!"
"Ha, that's peer review and politics"
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#7Which serious mathematicians? There is a quotation about peer review. I'm assuming that's also made up.
he is a professor at quebec. I am pretty sure he knows serious mathematians that he perhaps does not want to name directly.
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#8LLMs are bad at math of course. You can't calculate non-deterministically and expect accuracy. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/ai-leaps-from...
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#9This is a response to a strawman... I think we'd want to see what an actual mathematician says to sensibly analyze this discourse
I do think that there are two things going on that explains the past couple weeks' breakthroughs:
1) A lot of conjectures are weakly grounded.
2) Maybe humans are biased towards proving conjectures rather than finding counter-examples (prestige in finding proofs, tedium in searching for contradictions, etc.)
3) Math is one of the rare fields that can be 'solved' in pure token space without needing empirical or subjective-opinion support
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#10LLMs are bad at math of course. You can't calculate non-deterministically and expect accuracy. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/ai-leaps-from...
Calculators are great at math though. Put them together, and honey, you got yourself a stew going.