I'm very much not a mathematician, but I find the meta-discussion about this case fascinating, and I am a messy bitch who loves drama.

I don't know whether I'm just paying more attention this time, but I found the discussion on this be a perpetual game of telephone, where people get small, but important, details just completely wrong.

The person "threatening" the mathematician was _sama_; and the person who the threats were being directed _to_ is not an Anthropic employee!

(And the person who _did_ say these things have come out and explained what they meant; whether you believe them is up to you.)

I don't know if this is worse because everyone is so tired/angry at the big AI Labs; whether something about people's reading comprehension and attention span has gotten markedly worse or if this is just selection bias on my end; but it's _very weird_ to keep seeing this.