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'The Dark Night of Mathematics' Draws 513 Comments on 356 Upvotes — a 1.44 Comment-to-Score Ratio
Kirwin Hampshire's July 25 Substack essay hit r/singularity today at 356 upvotes and 513 comments, an unusually high 1.44 comment-to-score ratio indicating genuine argument rather than passive agreement. Hampshire's thesis is not about accuracy or jobs but about the loss of a sacred experience: citing the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans counterexample, he argues prompting novel proofs will be 'as auraless as ordering doordash,' invoking Ramanujan, Grothendieck, Cantor, and Leibniz, and dismissing the Leiden Declaration as inadequate. Its resurfacing the day after Astra shows the community reaching for a vocabulary for what AI-generated proof actually costs, beyond correctness.
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