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16 Year old used AI to disprove professor
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- GPerson 2mo agoLooks like the 16 year old thanks the Professor for some kind of collaboration, so why does the title make this look like some kind of conflict? This just comes across as unnecessarily demeaning to the Professor.
- watwut 2mo agoAI culture is about demeaning people so that you can prop ai. You can see it everywhere.
- scotty79 2mo agoConflict is a form of collaboration. Although in scientific context disproving doesn't necessarily indicate any conflict. And both the person who postulated something and the person who disproved it might be thankful to each other.
- nicoraga 2mo agothis is what I meant. disproving the conjecture is a form of collaboration, it’s not meant to be demeaning and is not demeaning in mathematics
- GPerson 2mo agoI don’t recommend going around intentionally making your collaborators looks like fools to an audience that doesn’t know anything about mathematics.
- stackghost 2mo agoIt's an 18 year old kid talking up their accomplishments two years ago on Twitter. When I was 18, I also thought I was hot shit. No surprise they're being self-aggrandizing.
- watwut 2mo ago18 years old are adults.
- stackghost 2mo agoLegally, perhaps. Behaviourally not so much, in my experience.
- Jtsummers 2mo ago> It's an 18 year old kid talking up their accomplishments two years ago on Twitter. 16-year-old, not 18-year-old. The original work that they disproved with GPT-5.5 was from two years ago, the posted work happened recently. GPT-5.5 did not exist two years ago so the student could not have done this work two years ago without a time machine. And the submitter to HN is the one that added the "to disprove professor" spin in the title. In the tweet, the student wrote "to disprove this case". Much more neutral language.