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ndriscoll • yesterday at 12:32 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Where are you getting unpaid from? Almost all people who are qualified to analyze the results are paid researchers. And if it is unpaid, then it sounds like they're looking it over for their own reasons, and that's fine?

I also fail to see the issue you have with releasing abandoned source. In what world is that bad? That obviously is a gift and should be encouraged. e.g. id software's history of doing that has meant their work stays alive forever.


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afavour • yesterday at 12:40 PM

Unpaid by OpenAI. In service of their PR goals they’re creating a bunch of work for others and not contributing to compensating that work.

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_aavaa_ • yesterday at 12:34 PM

OpenAI isn’t paying mathematicians to verify all these papers. It’s dumping the papers trying to nerd snipe them into checking it for free.

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rfgplk • yesterday at 12:46 PM

> Almost all people who are qualified to analyze the results are paid researchers.

This _might_ have been true somewhat in the past (although it wasn't), but it's completely false today. Anyone with access to a sufficiently advanced model has the capabilities of analyzing these papers/proofs. It's no different than reading a codebase you might not be fully familiar with, and checking it for correctness (give an engineering analogy).

This hardcore gatekeeping of math (and by extension STEM) fields MUST stop.

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