Comment by krackers

7 days ago

Because most times results like this are overstated (see the Cursor browser thing, "moltbook", etc.). There is clear market incentive to overhype things.

And in this case "derives a new result in theoretical physics" is again overstating things, it's closer to "simplify and propose a more general form for a previously worked out sequence of amplitudes" which sounds less magical, and closer to something like what Mathematica could do, or an LLM-enhanced symbolic OEIS. Obviously still powerful and useful, but less hype-y.

> it's closer to "simplify and propose a more general form for a previously worked out sequence of amplitudes"

How is this different than a new result? Many a careers in academia are built on simplifying mathematics.