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Does anyone have a rough estimate of how many research mathematicians there are in the U.S. or world?

That seems like a red herring. Have you independently verified the human generated proof of FLT? Surely someone else will try to verify Anthropic's formalization on different hardware. Plus, it seems likely that FLT formalizations will improve / get shorter over time, requiring less compute. And computers (and type-checkers) will continue to get faster over time as well. So maybe in 5 years you could own a computer fast enough to verify a/the proof in say a week, instead of 5 hours.

PWDR. Why doesn't satellite get around whatever blocks Iran has in place? Are they able to effectively able to jam everything? Seems like the U.S. should be paying the satellite providers to give away "free" service in Iran. Maybe there are just not enough receivers and they are too expensive? Plus, maybe a summary execution if caught with a receiver. Maybe the U.S. should be doing air drops of satellite receivers.

What is your estimate for the number of hours to formalize one page of undergraduate mathematics? Maybe you are saying this is close to zero, if/when Mathlib eventually covers all of undergraduate math?

Kind of odd that I haven't seen him mentioned in any of these discussions. How does Ted Kaczynski fit into all of this?

  * He was correct
  * He was wrong
  * He was correct, but for the wrong reasons
  * He was correct, but too extreme 
  * He was correct, and not extreme enough
  * He was correct, but too early
  * He was correct, but unpleasant as a person 
  * I haven't read the manifesto, but I have strong opinions anyway
  * Ted who?

Why would that be the case? Fiction books are already imaginary, so it makes less of a difference whether it is human-imaginary or reshuffled-by-LLM-imaginary. Non-fiction I expect to not be hallucinated-out-of-the-ether.

>In 1900, there was no evidence of the kind you seek that lighter [sic]-than-air flight was possible.

Presumably you meant heavier than air? Also, I'm pretty sure that birds existed in the years leading up to 1900.

I started reading and at about the half-way point, I decided to search for "AI", "LLM", "generative", which all came up blank. At that point I closed the tab and headed back here. #1 reason I would be very skeptical of purchasing a book published in 2026 is AI. Unfortunately, you need to overcome a pretty big hump in convincing me that there was no AI involved in authoring.

OpenAI has already said they aren't going to claim the $1,000,000. If this proof claim holds up, then the Millennium prizes will be 2 for 2 for rejections of the prize money for valid solutions. Maybe that will be the precedent for other AI labs as well.