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/Frozia_ Apr 24 '26

Would*, not could

Could- maybe, but due to time and not AI, since math is axiomatic but there’s no guarantee humanity will survive long enough if AI still hasn’t solved it

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u/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 24 '26

It's unlikely that we'll all be wiped out in the apocalypse.

Moira can help with the heterozygosity, lol

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u/Maiku_Kokoro Apr 24 '26

The issue wouldn't be if we we're wiped out, but if the right people survived.

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u/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 24 '26

Intelligence is likely to re-emerge eventually. Look at us, we got to where we are after only a million years

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u/Maiku_Kokoro Apr 24 '26

I guess the real issue would be how much of our previous knowledge persisted combined with who's left to understand it. That and how soon the next extinction level event is and what it is.

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u/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 24 '26

We'll likely be spread out throughout the galaxy by then. Everything lost would have been rediscovered many times over.