OpenAI just SOLVED MATH....

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two majors here and I know too well how difficult it is to bridge the majors in conversations with humans, but AI is my best conversation partner when it comes to major bridging.

Bro didn’t solve math. He solved clickbait.

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The biggest takeaway is that solutions are often in cross domain connections. The biggest problem with Physics or Mathematics, and other sciences are the gatekeeping that prevents this because people outside of their world aren't even acknowledged. This is something that I've encountered personally, as I am an Engineer (software/hardware) but deeply understand physics, mathematics, and other sciences. I can see the relationships and patterns that cross over these domains. Only recently did I start seeing GPT5.5 doing this in a way that was really consequential and started leveraging it.

Like that other scientist pointed out maybe the key to Superintelligence is multiple units of thought coming together to solve one problem

We should all find it a little disconcerting that the Google super computer is called BORG. We probably need to unimatrix zero our way out of that situation before all of population becomes a stagnant homogeneous group of drones.

whoa! i'm not the brightest, but i actually hung in there with you throughout the explaination, and understood at least at least a good 72% of it. that's awesome that a general purpose reasoning model came up with that solution, thanks for the video bro!

This reminds me of how I solved traffic in Cities:Skylines. Instead of modelling roads after top urban planners, I modelled them after a vascular system. It turns out if you only have six-way intersections and the whole city is fed by one-way underground highways, traffic becomes a trivial problem. Macolm Gladwell had a concept called "default to truth", that our first understanding of new information is "as if" it's true. I think we also have a "default to specificity", where we favor strong, niche connections over broad networks of possibility.

One issue of humankind is that, even with 8 or 9 B people on the planet, we don't have enough experts in some fields, because it is so hard to get to the forefront of research and knowledge (you need to be extremely smart, and spend a lot of time in this area). So as the sub-subjects fan out, progress eventually comes to a standstill. AI can help solve this. And by the way: bridging scientific disciplines reminds me of Hermann Hesse's "Glasperlenspiel" (1943). He was a true visionary.