The efficient markets hypothesis says the market prices incorporate all available information and there's no such thing as a cheap stock, so there's no easy money to be made by trading.
The math equivalent is presumably that all easy problems have been solved and all open problems should be very very hard. This has turned out not to be the case as LLMs have found simple counterexamples to long held conjectures.
Not really, the incentives for each are not binary values. There are bounties on the 10 millennium problems (that haven't been increased in 25 years), but there isn't much motivation beyond that. You get some street cred and your name in a prestigious journal. That's not-nothing but can't hold a candle to the potential fortunes of the market.
It's a pun on "efficient markets hypothesis".
The efficient markets hypothesis says the market prices incorporate all available information and there's no such thing as a cheap stock, so there's no easy money to be made by trading.
The math equivalent is presumably that all easy problems have been solved and all open problems should be very very hard. This has turned out not to be the case as LLMs have found simple counterexamples to long held conjectures.
They're the same thing; knowledge markets are markets.
Not really, the incentives for each are not binary values. There are bounties on the 10 millennium problems (that haven't been increased in 25 years), but there isn't much motivation beyond that. You get some street cred and your name in a prestigious journal. That's not-nothing but can't hold a candle to the potential fortunes of the market.
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