A local sneer enthusiast sat through the Nashville Thiel lectures so that we wouldn’t have to:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/1x4b4au/notes_from_the_room_peter_thiels_antichrist/

It’s neat that there are two of us!

Thanks for putting this together in one spot!

Stuff like this highlights that the "info"dump was an act of contempt toward professional mathematics. If OAI actually gave a damn about people, they could have coordinated with actual researchers in the relevant fields to clean up the documents while putting a human face on them. Put everything behind NDAs, fund some grants and fellowships, and if it leaks? So what, it would have been actual good press and built hype. Plus, it would have weeded out the the obvious garbage and they’d have brought a lot of young researchers inside the tent.

But nooooooo, they chose violence, because they are assholes. They’ll never forgive the academics for doing the work and actually being good at math and physics.

I know I’m preaching to the choir, but damn I’m stirred up.

Thanks! :)

First up: thanks for your hard work here in the sneer mines during these ridiculous times!

I saw this being ignored on HN and I thought that you might appreciate it:

Navier-Stokes Lost in Translation – Why Lean Verification of AI Autoformalisation Does not Guarantee Correct Natural Language Proofs

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.08144

The authors point out that automatic translation of natural language mathematics into Lean is very hard, actually. They also highlight some examples of such translation errors in the Navier-Stokes “paper” published by OpenAI. They tread lightly and don’t take a position on the correctness of the proof, but they do bring a large stack of receipts.

I also thought the reference to the Solvability Complexity Index (which is new to me) was interesting, and there’s an appendix with an explainer on how the SCI hierarchy is constructed. According to this scheme, autoformalisation of natural language proofs is strictly harder than the Halting Problem.

I haven’t had a chance to check on the bona fides of the authors.

This is all beyond my level, but I’d love to see what our local experts think of it in light of the recent gish galop.

That 2015 quote was a real stinger. Literally the future-tense version of “we destroyed the world but think of all the shareholder value we created along the way!”

Knowledge workers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your teeth.

Most of rationalism seems to be “Making up a guy and getting mad at him” doesn’t it?

good lord, the egos on all of them

“consort” and “compassion” are doing some serious lifting there

Help, i invented roku’s basilisk and now my remote control doesn’t work

They love matrix algebra like Hitler loved dogs.

jonny is always a good read!

Edit: good lord it keeps getting better #

I mean, if I wanted to be childish I’d say that Nate’s ok chasing all the users off because he’s used to playing with himself.

Ya see, the OP was being perfectly reasonable.

Is this a play to get openai out of its obligations to microsoft?

Just a smol oopsie doodle

David sure called this one. O_o

TESCREAL schism indicator

Unikitty did it first!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tz9WIfsd-Q

hogher

Bristley? Invasive? Dangerous? Not kosher?