Comment by youoy
18 hours ago
ASuperMegaI lab announces they have shrinked the space of unproved mathematical staments from infinity to infinity, giving us proof of their deep mathematical knowledge and understanding, and how they grasp the concept of infinities.
For me this reads as someone boasting about how they go to buy bread on a ferrari to the supermarket, while i sit listening to it, having no idea what they are talking about. And then i stand up and go walking to my favourite boulangerie.
Warning: if you are from the USA you may be triggered by this metaphore.
Willful ignorance is a vibe; did you read any of the GitHub? There are some stunning results in there. I get a similar feeling skimming through the topics that I do watching a successful space launch: it’s pretty cool humans built this. Unlike a space launch we are likely to be able to pass all of this information down to our grandchildren - space launches involve a lot of finicky engineering knowhow, but pure math results tend to be sticky over the last few thousand years. I find that hopeful.
FWIW I also like bread.
Dont get me wrong, i am 100% impressed by the technical capabilities, and appreciate the significance, and the amount of the results. This is a very special time to be alive, never in my dreams i would have thought to see this.
To follow your methaphore, who is directing the spaceship?
This feels more like fireworks than a space launch. Space launches would not have happened without having fireworks first of course, but I am looking forward for the space launch moment.