What Ankur Moitra has said about Unique games conjecture
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 26, 2026
Ankur Moitra, MIT mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, visiting the Institute for Advanced Study, has been quoted on Unique games conjecture once in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on October 26, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Moitra admits he had at times doubted the unique games conjecture because its consequences seemed too strong.
“I did find myself on the side of the doubters because unique games just sounded too nice to be true”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 2:19:02
Episodes
#503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity TheoryLex Fridman Podcast · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 h 43 min
Lex Fridman and mathematicians Alex Kontorovich, Ankur Moitra and Steven Brunton discuss AI's claimed proofs of quasi-Riemann, Navier-Stokes, unique games and what it means for mathematics.
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