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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by typedef_struct on Sunday October 18, 2026 @05:45PM (#50145802)
TLDR: "I didn't understand this proof and there is no one to explain it to me"
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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by ademup on Sunday October 18, 2026 @05:52PM (#50145856)
The TLDR seems perhaps tongue-in-cheek, but it's a worthy thought: the situation where our best experts find new science to be inscrutable is close at hand, if not here now.

Humans have been guilty of burying things we don't understand for millenia. Will we continue to do so "because AI"?

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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by fn-mote on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:24PM (#50146112)
Inscrutable through lack of effort communicating (OpenAI) is different from inscrutable because it’s high level hard to understand (Grothendieck).
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