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Excessive optimization for one or two mathematical goals can cause previously aligned goals of mathematics to diverge.

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mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.

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  1. Terence Tao
    Consequently, excessive optimization for one or two goals may cause the many previously aligned goals of mathematics to diverge from one another;

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    ↗Mathematics in the age of AIarxiv.org

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