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well_ackshuallytoday at 7:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

So it wasted everyone's time, thousands of hours of research trying to disprove something said very loudly. What OpenAI is doing is a DoS of the scientific community: wasting your time trying to check if they're not wrong, and claiming glory in the mean time.


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tmhn2today at 8:04 PM

That's true, but the story would have unfolded differently if Mochizuki had a lean-verified proof and was correct. I guess baked into my premise is that AI is producing reliable proofs (in the long term at least).

ksopedtoday at 7:53 PM

Agreed! Although, if done by a mathematician, it's not a ~complete waste. I think the community learns something along the way.

Is there an established term for the idea of "DoS"? I've taken to calling it slop fatigue.

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