alt Hacker News> formalizing the 166-page paper from OpenAI would take 132,800 person-hours
Am I missing something or is this completely out of the ballpark?
I must be missing something or the upvote bots are out in force for this one...
If this were remotely true it would be impossible for anyone to write a math textbook.
By formalizing, they mean within a proof assistant like Lean or Rocq, not simply in prose in a textbook. I can attest, 40 hours per page is by no means an overestimate for this sort of work.