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0 pointslajamerr5d ago0 comments

You can tell an agentic system. "Go and find a novel area of math that has unresolved answers and solve it mathematically with verified properties in LEAN. Verify before you start working on a problem that no one has solved this area of math"

That's not creative prompt. That's a driving prompt to get it to start its engine.

You could do that nowadays and while it may spend $1,000 to $100,000 worth of tokens. It will create something humans haven't done before as long as you set it up with all its tool calls/permissions.

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awesome_dude5d ago

Let me know when the Fields medal arrives in the mail.

It won't because even though it looks clever to you, people who /do/ understand math and LLMs understand that LLMs /are/ regurgitating

Why does your LLM need you to tell it to look in the first place? Why isn't just telling us all the answers to unsolved conjectures known and unknown?

Why isn't the LLM just telling us all the answers to all the problems we are facing?

Why isn't the LLM telling us, step by step with zero error, how to build the machine that can answer the ultimate question?

astrange5d ago

Here's a Fields Medalist commenting who doesn't seem to believe that.

https://x.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912

awesome_dude5d ago

Um - all I see is

> Timothy Gowers @wtgowers

> @wtgowers

> If you are a mathematician, then you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.

If your refutation requires someone to have an account, login, and read something - it's meaningless

defrost5d ago

Try https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912

it's readable to most, it's annoying having to swamp through ex-Twitter .. but there are work around's.

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astrange4d ago

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29a...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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awesome_dude5d ago

Let me know when the Fields medal arrives in the mail.

It won't because even though it looks clever to you, people who /do/ understand math and LLMs understand that LLMs /are/ regurgitating

Why does your LLM need you to tell it to look in the first place? Why isn't just telling us all the answers to unsolved conjectures known and unknown?

Why isn't the LLM just telling us all the answers to all the problems we are facing?

Why isn't the LLM telling us, step by step with zero error, how to build the machine that can answer the ultimate question?

astrange5d ago

Here's a Fields Medalist commenting who doesn't seem to believe that.

https://x.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912

awesome_dude5d ago

Um - all I see is

> Timothy Gowers @wtgowers

> @wtgowers

> If you are a mathematician, then you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.

If your refutation requires someone to have an account, login, and read something - it's meaningless

defrost5d ago

Try https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912

it's readable to most, it's annoying having to swamp through ex-Twitter .. but there are work around's.

1 more reply

astrange4d ago

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29a...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse