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It is interesting watching them try out all kinds of different stuff to try to stop everyone from getting mad. I swear, everyone getting really mad at a tech company really works. It’s one of the few things that does.

openai.comWorking with academic communities to build scientific understandingOpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them.

26/10/26, 10:31 pm9 reposts89 likes

the fool (cachinnatory)

@agnoster.net

Begrudgingly handing it to you, I was previously very skeptical I’m still not sure how I feel about a world we operate by rage

Colin

@colin-fraser.net

16h

Deep down the people who work there just want to be held in high esteem. They want everyone to say “thank you for changing the world with your wonderful products” and they don’t want to be yelled at.

Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦

@shallit.bsky.social

16h

Truly amazing how you can know the innermost thoughts & psychology of the (probably) dozens of people who worked on that project.

It’s how I feel

F your feelings if you use your feelings to smear people you don't know with zero evidence.

Colin

@colin-fraser.net

16h

They desperately want Terence Tao to say “great job, engineers. Your AI is smarter than me, which, in a way, makes you smarter than me. While this will be quite disruptive to me personally, I have no choice but to respect it.”

Peter Jacobs

@pjacobs.bsky.social

15h

Understanding that there are going to always be people who can't be pleased, seems like they still don't quite have this goodwill effort dialed in yet. Maybe bc of which problems they're targeting and why. 😬 twiiit.com/__alpoge__/s...

twiiit.comlevent (@__alpoge__)The choice of the other two problems is no great mystery to me either. I respect a lot of quite original or very strategically capable people in that organization. This, however, is comical.

Juspreet Singh Sandhu

@freegaussians.bsky.social

15h

Yes - I just wrote a tweet about this, but we were bearish in on a rigorous 4-D YM construction. Note that this still doesn’t prove mass-gap (the thing the community is actually clueless about) and so it doesn’t solve the YM millennium prize problem.

Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦

@shallit.bsky.social

16h

Or maybe it will be like me and my wife, who are quite surprised that ETH is false and that AI can prove it. (I once wrote a paper with hardness result based on ETH.) Lots to learn from new techniques that AI is discovering.

Shriram Krishnamurthi

@shriram.bsky.social

12h

A lot of results depend on ETH, right? Lev Reyzin was saying if this refutation holds many of his results are going to be affected.

Colin

@colin-fraser.net

16h

I don’t disagree. I’d love to hear your take on this result once you’ve had a chance to unpack and “digest it”, as they say.