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A mathematician runs out of hard problems

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Mathematician Bartosz Naskrecki reported he can hardly find a non-trivial hard problem GPT-5.2 Pro cannot solve within two hours, and declared the Singularity near.

Reporting date: 2026-01-07 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 7, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A mathematician runs out of hard problems
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Reporting date: 2026-01-07
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-07-naskrecki-cannot-find-a-hard-problem
Claim: Mathematician Bartosz Naskrecki reported he can hardly find a non-trivial hard problem GPT-5.2 Pro cannot solve within two hours, and declared the Singularity near.
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- Welcome to January 7, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-7-2026
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