academic math hiring
1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 1, 2026 by Daniel Litt · across every show →
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Sep 1, 2026 negative
Litt: Academic hiring incentives push math postdocs to generate AI slop
“Right now, I think, like, the existing incentive structures for math research do not do not encourage people to do that. So, you know, right now, if you're, like, a postdoc on the market, you want to get a job maybe for the next couple years before the communi…”