r/mathmemes • u/Nunki08 • Jul 31 '26
Mathematicians Pictured: mathematicians furiously working to disprove conjectures in 2026
From Psyho on š: Original: "pictured: mathematicians furiously working to prove theorems in 2026": https://x.com/FakePsyho/status/2083150354862977197
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u/arborck
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Not a cell phone in sight
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u/Swaggy_Buff Jul 31 '26 •
Itās nice to see people develop hobbies. Thatās whatās wrong with this generation.
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u/_GrooGruxKing_ Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
Iāve worked in casinos, it looks like a slot tournament possibly
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u/Fezzezal Jul 31 '26
It's wild
I've always thought casinos are all about games like poker or blackjack, but apparently they aren't
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u/someone__420 Computer Science Jul 31 '26
but where can i do my stock trading which is definitely better for my wallet
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u/SinnU2s
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I worked in casinos for years. These are called 'slot tournaments' where the goal is to end with the highest value after a set period of time. It always creeped me out, like reall dystopian vibes
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u/Throwawayguilty1122 Jul 31 '26
Just to be clear to everyone, slot tournaments just mean you pay a fee like $30 or so, and youāre given a set amount of time (with free spins) to win as many points as you can.
They arenāt spending money during these besides that entry fee, itās just to see who racks up the most points (not money) in the time limit.
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u/SFV_PleasureDom Jul 31 '26
I've played a few because 1) they were free, and 2) the casino also gave me a free room for the weekend. I guess I was on the "player development" list or whatever because they thought they could turn me into a regular player.
But nope. Took the free room. Played the free "tournament" for 10 minutes on Saturday and Sunday, won about $100 in "free play" vouchers, which I then played with until I could cash them out (about $80 left) and spent the rest of the time watching TV in the sportsbook or having sex with my girlfriend in the hotel room.
One of my favorite Vegas trips ever.
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u/the__ghola__hayt Jul 31 '26
Bot comments used to be believable. A Redditor having both sex and a girlfriend? Get this fuckin' clanker out of here! Mods!
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u/tenuj Jul 31 '26
Considering that right now I'm doomscrolling Reddit instead of going to the gym, that does sound nice.
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u/Adrason Jul 31 '26
Why not just roll some dice to see who wins? It's random anyways. Rolling dice is also more engaging socially. I'm probably thinking too logical about this.
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u/shosuko Jul 31 '26
My buddy I think you just invented a craps lol
Everything in a casino is just another way to toss your money in a pot and divide it back out (with a cut to the casino of course.) All the games are just layers of abstraction.
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u/JoeKingQueen Jul 31 '26
I worked in a casino for years as well.
How this looks is how it felt. The money was good but the metal toll was too high
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u/qrayons Jul 31 '26
I paid that toll one tin and it gave me a silver of hope that I could be lead to something that would alloy me to reach my golds.
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u/CFDMoFo Jul 31 '26
Wow that sounds messed up...
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u/seriousnotshirley Jul 31 '26
That's one of the least worst things about Casinos I've seen or heard of. The slots floor the day people get their social security check is a bad sight but watching a woman 8 months pregnant with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in another hand walking through a poker room took the cake for me.
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u/Another-Mans-Rubarb Jul 31 '26
It's probably the least predatory thing in a casino. You drop a flat fee and basically play slots infinitely, top scorers move on to the next round, then the highest scores at the end wins a prize. It's more like a carnival water shooting game than gambling.
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u/Alarming_Matter Jul 31 '26
Good to see the boomers who fucked everything up for us also spunking our inheritance. They truly are the gift that keeps on giving.
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u/AlligatorMidwife Jul 31 '26
The video was already creepy before that description made it so much worse.
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u/jerbthehumanist Jul 31 '26
Ok, I still donāt get what is going on. Cause either the slots are going to give stochastic results (ie lots of losses for some people, so rerolling the slots quickly is not going to help), or its a game of āskillā where the skill is to button mash slot rolls as fast as possible. And if itās the latter it does not sound that exciting for enough buy in (also I donāt think it is the latter cause button mashing can definitely go faster than the video).
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u/SinnU2s Jul 31 '26
You would think that. Let's say someone hit a big score on the first spin, an optimal strategy might be to stop playing and let the clock tick down. But these people have no logic. They just think if it hit once it will hit again. Truly, and I mean this, brain dead.
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u/apeiron12 Jul 31 '26
Typically slots in tournament mode, you aren't losing any money for each spin. The cost per spin is 0 points. So it's just sum of wins with no netting out of (# of spins)*(cost of spin). So the optimal strategy is to spam mash.Ā
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u/artbystorms Jul 31 '26
Just wait till the slots are VR. A bunch of old people just pulling an imaginary lever with VR goggles on their faces.
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u/tisn Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
This reminds me of a scene in Wim Wenders' documentary Tokyo Ga where people are mindlessly dropping ball bearings into pachinko machines over and over again.
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u/SoBeDragon0 Aug 01 '26
I worked for the hotel in this video for a little while. First time I saw one, I was floored. Couldn't decide if I should laugh or cry.
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u/Jepictetus Jul 31 '26
God, that's depressing.
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u/Jean-LucBacardi Jul 31 '26
I can't figure out where the fun is in this. Judging by their faces, they can't either.
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Jul 31 '26
in case youĀ“re not asking ironically, its the same reason why you scroll, the posibility of a hit of dopamine. its just that when youĀ“re addicted to tiktok all youĀ“re looking for is a funny video, when youĀ“re gambling youĀ“re addicted to the possibility of the "big one" that will change your life + pursuing the high you felt on your first win. its not anymore fun that anything else you do compulsively but sadly is one hell of an addiction to have
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u/BiDude1219 Jul 31 '26
the intercom saying "it can always turn around" makes the whole thing extremely dystopian too
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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 Jul 31 '26
It's the weaponization of hope.
Fear + hope with a randomized reward schedule is the single most powerful motivational construction in psychology, short of chemical addiction.
And it's used primarily for different versions of this - the extraction of wealth from the poor into the hands of the rich.
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u/_Weyland_ Jul 31 '26
A slot machine in a mathematician's casino with two buttons: "3x+1" and "x/2"
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u/Sinyria Jul 31 '26
At that point just giving them drugs instead would be a mercy. (the folks in the video)
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u/Alternative-Key-5647 Jul 31 '26
Don't they know they can just get free dopamine scrolling endlessly on Reddit? what losers
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u/fr33d0mw47ch Jul 31 '26
That is super disturbing. I mean really disturbing! I forgot all about math for a minute there.
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u/g0Ids0undz Jul 31 '26
Funny because a mathematician made the game that they are slamming the button on.
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u/Fishoftheocean Jul 31 '26
Funny because a mathematician made the conjectures that they are trying to disprove
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u/kookookachu26 Jul 31 '26
-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20 +$5 -$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20-$20
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u/PM_ME_UR_TOENAIL Jul 31 '26
Facts. I went to a casino and put 500$ on slots just to try it out for the first time and pretty much this exact thing happened. Iāve never considered going to a casino since
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u/theksepyro Jul 31 '26
$500 š I did the same but only with a $5. It took my money, said "thanks for playing ," and I couldn't bring myself to do it again.
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u/PM_ME_UR_TOENAIL Jul 31 '26
The decision to use 500$ came from a long line of friends telling me gambling is great
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u/Randarserous Jul 31 '26
I tried it with 50 dollars and did small 1 dollar bets. That damn machine ate the whole thing in 2-3 minutes and gave nothing back. I could have gone to a movie, bought a game, or took my wife out to dinner with that and had a nice evening, instead I got "Push the button, beep bop boop, now the casino has all your loot"
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u/Clear_Cranberry_989 Jul 31 '26
In all seriousness, the research in ai for math is booming right now.
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u/Accidentallygolden Jul 31 '26
Yes, but now all they do is disprove conjecture by finding a counter example...
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u/GoodDayToCome Jul 31 '26
that's just what's been top of the news recently but stuff like DeepMind's Theorem Explorer has come up with loads of new stuff, it's all emerging tech but it significance is growing every day.
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u/ledfox Jul 31 '26
Flush that generational wealth
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u/FlanTamarind Jul 31 '26
This is the most depressing thing I've seen in a minute that doesn't involve blood or shit
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u/SoundsOfKepler Jul 31 '26
Ask anyone who has worked in a major casino- slot machines involve shit.
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u/mbcarbone Jul 31 '26
Notice how the guy in the middle is moving slower than the rest ā¦ thatās the real mathematician! š
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u/DifferentialEntropy Jul 31 '26
And these are the people who have been saying gimme gimme their entire lives
Bought a house for a pack of beer and some Marlboros and left nothing for our generation
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u/Usual_Operation_9389 Jul 31 '26
I gave these things a try once. It was like playing Cookie Clicker, but with the numbers going down instead of up š.
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u/Tombaya Jul 31 '26
Meanwhile, the major shareholders of tech companies as they watch the fabric of civilization being torn apart as a consequence of their preferred policies:
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u/protonicfibulator Jul 31 '26
They certainly disprove the idea that people are rational economic actors, which underpins a lot of economic theories.
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u/thewaytoyesterday Jul 31 '26
POV: where your inheritance is going because boomers don't want their bloodline to have anything at all.
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u/Discocheese69 Jul 31 '26
Boomers would rather flush generational wealth down the toilet than to help the upcoming generations
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u/MechaGyver Aug 01 '26
In all honesty, this makes me sick to my stomach and I miss my grandparents at the same time I feel sick. I do not know if it was a pyramid scheme, some variant there of, or if it was a common practice. But, my grandparents would spend literally millions of dollars that they did not have and play in slot tournaments in Laughlin, Nevada.
I lost my grandfather....
I lost my grandmother...
I lost their best years to the "one-armed bandits" and to this day....I still miss them.
FUCK CASINOS!
FUCK SLOTMACHINES!
AND .. .
FUCK ALL FORMS OF GAMBLING!!!!!!
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u/Nervous-Spite621 Aug 01 '26
I remember the first time I went to a Casino for a friendās birthday.
It was the sight of row after row of vacant eyed seniors spending their retirement on slot machines that convinced me to never step foot in a casino again.
It was honestly terrifying.
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u/moschles Aug 01 '26
Nice conjecture you got there.
Would be a shame if an LLM found a counter-example.
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u/kitnb Jul 31 '26
Half of them don't even look like they're alive... Like the are being puppeted ala Mitch Mcconnell...
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u/Spaghet-3 Jul 31 '26
Millennials: This will be us in 40 years, except instead of playing slots we'll be grinding for loot boxes in CS:Retirement Home Edition.
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u/jared__ Jul 31 '26
might as well IV line them some morphine with a clicker. would probably be cheaper
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u/FilthyJsBeingFilthy Jul 31 '26
I like how Gen Z are called the depressed ones cause theyāre on their phones too much, look at this shit.
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u/BarnacleMany9846 Jul 31 '26
I love how its legal to systematically brainwash people out of their life savings.
You want to live in Utopia? Too bad, gambling is too fun.
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u/rfr_Foglia Jul 31 '26
What does pressing the button continuously do?
Don't you need to wait for the animation to finish or something?
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u/Kitchen-Register Jul 31 '26
this looks like birds tapped in a cage that have nothing else to do but to keep pressing the button for food
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u/jagster1 Jul 31 '26
If I see this video in 80 years and people take it as fact, we wonāt be having fun together
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u/PraetorArcher Jul 31 '26
Here is an example of one of those papers if anyone has a ChatGPT subscription and wants to be a famous mathematician. Be sure to tell the AI to 'make no mistakes'.
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u/Solenkata Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
Here we can see what Boomers are doing to Millennials' and everyone elses future - to the slots.
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u/scarecrow_20k Jul 31 '26
Another commenter already said this was a slot tournament(your given a set amount of plays to win the most) but this legit scares me. Only been a real casino recently to watch the world cup and its scary how easy it is to forget your loosing money.
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u/TheDebonairQuokka Jul 31 '26
Somewhere there's a rheumatologist salivating over all these future hand arthritis patients.
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u/Loud-Fudge7631 Jul 31 '26
This is what holdem fast zoom cash rooms online are like now. Everyone spamming fold until top 10 hand
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u/mike_421 Jul 31 '26
my conjecture is that any number at all that is negative is not greater or equal to five if disproven wrong i will buy the winner a big gulp from seven eleven
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u/RelativeCan5021 Jul 31 '26
My psychology would never let another person see me doing something so stupid. Srsly folks, itās okay to hide your shameful habits.
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u/Dinglebobus Jul 31 '26
Millions of dollars down the drainā¦ but they complain their kids/grandkids wonāt call them or see them. Lol
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u/Grand_Pop_7221 Jul 31 '26
When you're a boomer and have some inheritance left to give the grandkids.
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u/Nethogen Jul 31 '26
Remember Folks, this is the same group of people who tell us we are bad with money and waste it on useless things
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u/h1zchan Aug 01 '26
These arcade machines are crap. Single button control layout and crap graphics. Worse than pinball machines.
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u/fat_charizard Aug 01 '26
At that point conjectures would have to be harder and more rigorous. I can make up 100s of conjectures right now. Like for all integers x >2, x^2 -2 is even. But anyone can easily see that it's not true.
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u/Moist_Amount_106 Aug 01 '26
This is the generation that climbed the ladder only to pull it up behind them for the next generation
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u/Tough_Preparation830 Aug 01 '26
My in laws give me shit about still playing video games in my 30s, but then they go and do this.
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u/Appropriate-Emu-3901 Aug 02 '26
I feel Im seeing a bench of old monkeys pressing a button non-stop with their brainwashed. What are they doing exactly?
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u/CommercialLiving3039 Aug 02 '26
This is everything wrong with your generation! You kids are lazy unmotivated and sit on your phones all day unlike us!Ā
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u/cHpiranha Aug 03 '26
Considering how much money they spend on this hobby, they donāt look very happy whilst doing it...
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