The Dark Night of Mathematics [loc-0054]

You know the drill by now. Another article I read about the damage LLMs are doing to our intellectual pursuits. This is a deeply personal reflection from a mathematician, Kirwin Hampshire: The Dark Night of Mathematics.

There is nothing I can do. There may be nothing you can do. I have no prescriptions, policy recommendations, or coherent call to action. I just want to be honest and open about my emotional and spiritual response. I want to feel seen. I want folks like me to feel seen. I need the architects of our new mathematical paradigm to look me in the eye and acknowledge our shared humanity and soul before they deliver the coup de grâce. I need, most of all, for us to understand what we are really doing.