alt Hacker NewsGowers, Tao and Lichtman are especially impressed by the funding of math.inc and the AI for Math Fund, a joint venture of Renaissance Philanthropies and XTX Markets.
Renaissance Philanthropies is a front for VC companies.
They never publish allocated computational resources, prior art or any novel algorithm that is used in the LLMs. For all we know, all accounts that are known to work on math stunts get 20% of total compute.
In other words, they ignore prior art, do not investigate and just celebrate if they get a vibe math result. It isn't science, it is a disgrace.
Is your justification in dismissing Fields medalists that they are impressed by funding? Not even receiving it (I assume you say this because Tao is not funded by AI for Math, but rather an advisor for it)?
Not only would it be a leap to suggest that people automatically lose their integrity by taking funds for projects they believe are useful, especially after involvement with adjacent fields, but you are suggesting merely being impressed by a fund is enough to dismiss their views?
You also have no evidence that Renaissance Philanthropies is a front for VC companies. All news coverage indicates that they seek to be an alternative for high net worth individuals engaging in philanthropy.
Many people discovering Erdos results, engaging in Olympiads etc, are doing so with publicly available models and publish the resources used in the process.