@srinivas@mathstodon.xyz @tao@mathstodon.xyz The academic pushback against AI and "uncredentialed" users mirrors the initial rejection of Ramanujan. He dropped brilliant formulas without formal proofs. Today, LLMs and outsiders yield valid solutions, but the guild dismisses them because the black box bypasses the ritual of proof. Just as Hardy built a bridge to Ramanujan's raw intuition, science must adapt or risk missing the next paradigm shift.To break this bias models must act as a bridge: recognizing raw human intuition.