[nullsanity]

Same awnser as much of the LLM Proofs - people cared about other things. There isn't a lot of money in academic math, and the ones that love it don't look for low value findings. Proofs like these are, funnily enough, usually the domain of hobbyists - but over the last few years, the "Monetize everything" mentality and struggling first world economy has pushed people away from interesting academic pursuits on their free time.

[h-jones]

My understanding is that this is in a different league (Smale problem) than a lot of the other results that have been coming out (Erdos), though I could be wrong.

[pfdietz]

The Erdos problem solutions have been accelerating, including a $250 problem and a $100 problem.

It's been fun watching the cope collapse from day to day. No one told me a slow takeoff Singularity would have so much schadenfreude.

[muldvarp]

> It's been fun watching the cope collapse from day to day. No one told me a slow takeoff Singularity would have so much schadenfreude.

I'm constantly surprised at how much schadenfreude there is on hacker news about LLMs. Like, do you guys (and girls) not have to work for a living?

[pfdietz]

I don't. I'm retired.

I'm also not going to live all that much longer, most likely, so it's kind of annoying I'm not really going to see any upsides to an AI world either. I'm discounting the possibility of our AI overlords figuring out a miracle like reversing aging.

But it is really f-ing cool that automated math is now a thing and we are seeing it. Eat your heart out, past me.

[muldvarp]

> so it's kind of annoying I'm not really going to see any upsides to an AI world either

I don't think the "permanent underclass" will see many upsides either. They certainly won't have the money to pay for it. I'm excluding myself in that statement because luckily I have access to large amounts of barbiturates.

[pfdietz]

The math community was not a global underclass. World wealth is increasing, the actual global underclass is seeing rapidly improving lives.

You may be seeing a loss of privilege due at least in part to the inevitable reversion to the mean of US economic dominance. But on a global scale, things are going well. AI will lead to a much larger pie.

[HappyPanacea]

This is slow?