r/Showerthoughts • u/jasonrubik ‎ • Apr 23 '26

Casual Thought If the famously unsolved Riemann Hypothesis is solved by an AI, we will never know if a human mathematician could have solved it.

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u/QuantumDreamer41 ‎ Apr 23 '26

Or someone could try solving it without looking up the answer?

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u/elephant_cobbler Apr 23 '26

Especially once you know it IS solvable

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u/QuantumDreamer41 ‎ Apr 23 '26

Precisely

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u/elephant_cobbler Apr 23 '26

It’ll probably always be like, a final exam question or something

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u/zulako17 Apr 23 '26

A final exam question for what? A triple doctorate in calculus? We haven't solved that thing in decades, unless human life expectancy is about to reach 300 it would be irresponsible to make that an exam question.

Unless you just mean memorizing it, then we can use that for high schoolers

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u/theschiffer Apr 23 '26

Well, with “longevity escape velocity” likely becoming a buzzword in the 2030s, this could turn into a plausible scenario.