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For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this:

This part is crazy. Every paragraph is worse than the last. Perhaps I was naive, but I didn't think OpenAI capable of being this dishonest.

Sam Altman is pretty universally acknowledged as the most dishonest person in Silicon Valley. None of this is surprising, given his history.

I'm aware of Sam's reputation. I wasn't expecting his underlings to be as dishonest as him, but in hindsight that was a silly thing to believe.