The Dark Night of Mathematics - by Kirwin Hampshire
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What are we really doing?
The Dark Night of Mathematics What are we really doing? Kirwin Hampshire Jul 25, 2026 686 288 140 Share I am going insane. During the last week or so LLMs have produced a number of counterexamples to significant long-standing conjectures. I will not recount these happenings here, there are many places where you can find the details. Mathematicians, math enthusiasts, and curious laypeople are responding to these developments in ways that I believe obscure what is, for me, the true heart of the problem. I do not speak for everyone in the math community in my response. But I suspect I am not alon
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