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Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance

· Scott Aaronson · May 28, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
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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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