UChicago Prompt Change?

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Just curious if anyone else noticed this, but I was working on my UChicago app and saw that they replaced one of their “uncommon” prompts:

Number 5 was originally: “According to Lázló Babai, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Chicago, it is unfortunate that mathematicians do not have any procedures in place for revoking theorems once their validity is established because sometimes our results would be nicer without them. If you had the power to obliterate any known truth for the sake of getting nicer results, what truth would you choose to obliterate and why? This power cannot be used as a Ctrl-Z on events in your own life.
Inspired by Erin Horning, Class of 2016”

and it is now about vestigiality (which still sounds super awesome!) I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t going crazy or reading outdated information. :slight_smile:

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Yep I noticed it too and mentioned it on the 2020 group. We’re not sure what caused the change though. Maybe the original prompt was too hard to answer? (Kind of a pity, since that was an incredible essay prompt.)

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Awe I did really like that one. Oh well, still so many good prompts to choose from! good luck to you :smiley:

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You could still use that original one if you wanted under the “create your own prompt”

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Anything involving Babai is awesome.
(Parent of a '12 math/CS grad)