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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Many people with relevant expertise think there's a real chance that AI could kill us all in the not too distant future. Others disagree. I've written a post, aimed principally at mathematicians, detailing my struggles to decide what to make of this. gowers.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/h...

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How worried should we be about extinction risk from AI?

A little over two months ago, Jacob Tsimerman surprised a lot of people by announcing, immediately after he had received a Fields Medal, that he would be giving up mathematical research and “…

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Alex Jungroth @alexjungroth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Prof Gio explains how math is in fact about showing your work. The point of math questions is to prompt the mathematics required to find the solution. Millennium Prize Problems are supposed to be an impetus for new theories that will revolutionize the world. LLMs saying 42 is 🤷‍♀️ #Mathematics #Math

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Ross Kang @kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Here is cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon published in the Halifax Chronicle Herald on 1 October 2026. This is a painfully apt play on the famed Escher drawing about self-recursive drawing […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

A cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon published in the Halifax Chronicle Herald on 1 October 2026. This is a painfully apt play on the famed Escher drawing about self-recursive drawing.

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Ross Kang @kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Here is an omnibus edition of a variety of reactions to the OpenAI omnibus release on Tuesday.

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Ross Kang @kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I haven't been to a barber since 2009. I would just cut my hair manually with professional-grade hair-cutting scissors. Today I finally succumbed to the attractive humming convenience of machine assistance. It saved 20 minutes off my usual routine! #haircut #surrender #dadjoke

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Ross Kang @kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I am next in the rota for our local discrete mathematics seminar next week. Given all the things that had kind of bunched up and accumulated privately, I was really undecided on what to talk about. But now I am settled on an elegiac and retrospective overview, still from a more private and […]

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Ross Kang @kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I am relieved to see this change to the Erdos problems website. My own speculation is that Erdos would probably have hated the way problems with his name have been warped into "benchmarking", in no small part due to the way this website was set up (e.g. the numbering system) and co-opted for […]

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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/117345… Commercial mega platform sucking up virtually all of human knowledge, deceiving the public about it, and bending the rules to their liking - I guess it's just a normal Monday morning in 2026? Have a nice week, everyone.

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Ross Kang @kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

A fundamental part of science (not just math!) is citation: "standing on the shoulders of giants". I find proposals --in the wake of large-scale slopmath, and implicit in suggestions for improving the "credit" system-- to change up mathematical citation conventions based on later exposition or […]

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Ross Kang @kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@wtgowers.bsky.social I am not properly trained in political science, sociology, public policy, or history, but still I think I can loosely recognise how this approach, concentrating within a small unrepresentative body a momentous set of decisions/recommendations that are consequential for a […]

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Ross Kang @kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2025

A post of @11011110 has reminded me that (after a year and a half lurking here) it's never too late for me to toot and pin an intro here. I am a Canadian mathematician in the Netherlands, and I have been based at the University of Amsterdam since 2022. I also have some rich and longstanding […]

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