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2026-07-28 10:49 UTC
Now, the clause "as far as I can tell" is doing a *lot* of work in that sentence. I am reasonably math literate, up to first-year calculus and a lifetime spent around my father (a mathematician). However, I have never heard of "the Jacobian conjecture," and while I know what all the words in the first paragraph of the relevant Wikipedia entry mean, I can't parse any of the sentences they form:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobian_conjecture
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-28 10:49
In other words, I lack the discernment to evaluate the output of the chatbot that Tao exchanged theories with. If you showed me an equally opaque transcript of a "conversation" between a chatbot and a crank with AI psychosis whose math made no sense whatsoever, I couldn't make an *a priori* judgment about which one was a solid piece of mathematical theorizing and which one was a math-flavored word-salad. 3/