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Scattered thoughts on how doing math feels these days.

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A LessWrong post reflects on how confusing the current moment in mathematics feels, framed as a time capsule of the author's uncertainty about where things are heading.

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“This is a weird moment. I have a hunch that we'll look back later and tell ourselves stories in which it seemed obvious where things were going. So I wanted to lay down a little time capsule and register just how confusing everything felt at the time.”
LessWrong, 27 Oct 2026, 12:51.

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