Not that humans could not do it, but that no human would spend the attention.
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The solved physics problem was really about attention scarcity
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An OpenAI coauthor said AI will do to physics in 2026 what it did to coding in 2025, while another physicist noted the solved gluon problem was really about attention scarcity, since the calculation was long considered an elaborate way of arriving at zero.
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- Welcome to February 17, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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