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Lev Reyzin @lreyzin · 3h
A colleague just told me the problem he spent the most time on was solved by AI. The argument is only 3 pages, but he cannot even get himself to read it because he feels he can no longer contribute.

A crisis of meaning is coming, first for (many) mathematicians, then for others.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by mathematician Lev Reyzin relaying that a colleague's most-worked problem was solved by AI in a three-page argument the colleague cannot bring himself to read, and predicting a crisis of meaning, first for mathematicians and then for others.

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