> It's this sort of thing that motivates people to burn down the institution you might be trying to defend.

lol, yes, this sort of thing is what many people who voted for Trump were saying, and things are going great for them.

> They prove a millenium result, but it doesn't count because they are bad people.

OpenAI has only themselves to blame for this, and they know it. They could have handled this so much better. I'd bet there's more meeting time right now going into how to unveil future math results than on meeting about the actual math research.