Ill-Posed

bluesky — River_Tam — 16 Sep 2026

"Whatever our goals are, we’ve operationalized them primarily through proving theorems. Almost all papers or PhD theses…

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"Whatever our goals are, we’ve operationalized them primarily through proving theorems. Almost all papers or PhD theses have a main theorem, and ostensibly a proof of it. But it should be clear that the goal of mathematics is not to prove theorems..."

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