alt Hacker NewsOr, just maybe, they share a key property with the mounds of popular writing, journalism and random internet accretions they were trained on: they seem total rubbish on anything you know about deeply, but brilliant on everything else.
Their math is as just as good as their rambling writing and their Ghiblified poster art. Most people don't seem to realize that.
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Kiln6125 • today at 2:43 PM
The difference here obviously being that the part that you mention is more embedded in the proofs (long and difficult and near-hallucinatory) but the results that matter are that the proofs are correct and validated. So I think you're failing to account for that, the problem for math is that the journey matters less than the destination.
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This is not a reasonable take in 2026. The proofs are valid. You can even check the Jacobian counterexample yourself with pencil and paper.