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Various and Sundry

Peter Woit · 15 Jul 2026 · math.columbia.edu

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  1. I see nothing that looks like a significant new idea or any evidence this isn't a dead field.
  2. While in mathematics AI agents are starting to have a major positive impact on research (e.g. by resolving the Jacobian conjecture), the situation is very different in hep-th.
  3. The result is something completely worthless, but not obviously distinguishable from many other things on hep-th, which is in serious danger of going from something sad and unhealthy to something completely overwhelmed with crud.