sdenton4
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
I had a conversation about this very problem last November, with a visiting mathematician. It's essentially signaling a deflationary spiral in intellectual work: why bother doing the work now, when it will take half as much effort a year from now?
This is perhaps always a possible stance, but it's exacerbated when some proportion of your own agency is handed over to, well, agents.
https://waymo.com/blog/2025/10/creating-an-all-weather-drive...
I would generally expect this state to resolve quickly to "Proven and Verified" (the tendency in mathematics historically has been for complicated first-proofs of results, followed by significant reductions in proof complexity as new tools and definitions become available), but may still be useful for assigning real credit to who/whatever produces reasonable proof for a brute-force-verified result.