Comment by td6
6 hours ago
I think in a ideal world your right.
I think a problem is that math seems like a deeply toxic, ego driven domain.
I think he argued that e.g because the navier stokes millennium problem ist considered solved now, you won't get any recognition for being the first human to solve.(How would you even proof you solved it yourself and not just regurgitated the ai proof?)
And since recognition is the main objective, noone would spend time on dissecting the proof, and perhaps finding some unique approach to solving the problem, that could be transferred to other open issues.
And therefore the problem is now "poisoned". Since it's assumed to be solved noone will research it, and the potential revelations won't be found
To be fair I'd hope during peer review this would be apparent.
During your write up, I'd imagine you would check it's not already out there too. And once complete it's cheap and easy to run it through an LLM and ask is this covered by anything else out there. If its novel and not published it doesn't matter what others say.
Research is already messy as it stands. Something new can already be dismissed by incumbents as "not novel enough" especially in niche fields where they're likely to be the ones conducting peer review.