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Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance
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Scott Aaronson
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May 28, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
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The Fate of Humanity
discrete geometry
Unit distance problem
artificial-intelligence
mathematics
Summary
The blog post discusses the recent resolution of Paul Erdös’s Unit Distance Problem by the AI model GPT5.5Pro, shedding light on the implications for discrete geometry and the potential challenges to human relevance in mathematics.
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