I think it's generally a good thing that OpenAI is noticing when their projects are harming human communities, and deciding to respect their norms, especially when their math discoveries do not have immediate application and build on the thousands of years of that community's work.
> harming human communities
Said communities are doing that all on their own by caring about what AI is doing rather than just focusing on their own thing as they did before AI. It's a serious kind of envy IMO.
> do not have immediate application
How do you know? Seems statistically unlikely with 720 problems, most of them well known