alt Hacker News> some rando mathematician (Levent Alpöge) working for Anthropic, not Anthropic the organization
Why do you trust a random stranger so much? Will you hand over your car keys to a random stranger? Sharing the chat will take 30s of their time.
> There's no reason to think that it won't provided if asked for
But they didn't provide it.
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InsideOutSanta • yesterday at 11:10 AM
If I came up with this counterexample, I sure as hell wouldn't give credit to Claude.
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jibal • today at 1:59 AM
> Why do you trust a random stranger so much?
Why do you make false claims and attack strawmen so much?
dist-epoch • yesterday at 11:51 AM
> But they didn't provide it.
because they are using the same prompt to try finding other counter-examples. they are milking it
OK, so the two options are:
A) Claude really produced this counterexample
B) A mathematician working for Anthropic solved a problem mathematicians have been working on for more than a century, and then credited it to Claude for PR purposes
If you believe B is more likely, why would you then believe a proof in the form of a chat log, when said chat log could itself have been faked by Anthropic way more easily than solving the mathematical problem in the first place?