Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦 on X: "Mathematicians are coping so hard they might abolish irrational numbers again and turn the field into a guild https://t.co/EUvg6Dqxlh" / X

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Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦
@BlackHC
Mathematicians are coping so hard they might abolish irrational numbers again and turn the field into a guild
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AHM Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents
[This is a guest post by the Association for Human Mathematics, reposted from their statements page. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — …
8:23 AM · Oct 8, 2026
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ottrp0p
@ottrp0ps
Oct 8
But it's already a guild. It's always been a guild. Academia in general is one of the last guild structures in the modern world complete with apprenticeship, journeymen, and their own special guild rules.
janeonic
@aeongnostic369
Oct 8
This is just a repost by him but they are not 100% wrong though. In essence, research comes from human intution. How can we allow AI to autonomously solve many of our research problems not just in the field of Mathematics? I'm not against using AI for research but the sole
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Brendan Frisk Dubsky
@DubskyFrisk
Oct 8
As a former mathematician, I feel this is extremely embarrassing. Putting some committe of mathematicians as arbiters of legitimate mathematics above validated proofs can hardly be described as less than treason to the core values all scientific field rest upon.
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Mathematicians are coping so hard they might abolish irrational numbers again and turn the field into a guild