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ndriscolltoday at 1:05 AM1 replyview on HN

There are vanishingly few research mathematician positions and it's one of the most competitive fields, so no. But I'm not sure how that's relevant. As the OP says, usually the value of a proof is not the knowledge that something is true per se, but the reasoning techniques to understand why. How can it be anything other than helpful then to have a truth oracle as you try to figure out why things are true?


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YeGoblynQueennetoday at 9:33 AM

So you're not going to do it yourself and you want someone else to do it for you? Some mathematician that dedicated their life to understand mathematics must now toil unpaid and unwillingly to understand the AI slop proofs that you want us to be able to understand?

Do the job yourself. And if you can't, that's maybe a hint that you should listen to the people who can.

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