String Theory for Computers
13 October 2026 at 04:49
"Did I read this paper? Of course not. No one at OpenAI read this paper either, so why should I? I did what every other mathematician in the world does with AI slop mathematics: I fed it back into the slop machine and ran an information retrieval session with a chatbot interface to extract salient facts. Anthropomorphically speaking: I asked ChatGPT what it thinks about its own output. This is how we do mathematical research now. What a world."
"Unfortunately, I did not find a faster Fourier transform. Instead,l I found the rot that develops inside applied mathematical theory when formalism becomes so detached from reality that a "breakthrough" is nothing more than an artifact of mathematicians not being able to properly specify the rules of their games in natural language." The orange website is not impressed, but I'd give more credence to the author - he did not drink the kool-aid and can write.
"Unfortunately, I did not find a faster Fourier transform. Instead,l I found the rot that develops inside applied mathematical theory when formalism becomes so detached from reality that a "breakthrough" is nothing more than an artifact of mathematicians not being able to properly specify the rules of their games in natural language." The orange website is not impressed, but I'd give more credence to the author - he did not drink the kool-aid and can write.