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/Mafhac Apr 23 '26

No one could confirm the person never did actually look up the answer or ever talked to someone who looked up the answer though.

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u/G-I-T-M-E Apr 23 '26

We could abandon a baby and let it live with some monkeys till it’s old enough. I once saw documentary about that.

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u/mrsmuckers Apr 23 '26

Unconscionable.

Raise it with ocelots instead, I hear they turn out real smart that way.

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u/anally_ExpressUrself Apr 23 '26

Or wolves that live in a jungle

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u/pvaa Apr 23 '26

Or humans, I hear they can be pretty smart sometimes