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Athanase000 • today at 6:38 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I agree, and I disagree. There are plenty of published mathematical papers that are just as poorly written as OpenAI's. Nobody says nothing because the authors are big names. In some cases, the proofs are not even correct, but everybody has a feeling the result are true nonetheless, so they pretend not to see it. So I agree that OpenAI should have done a better job of writing down the results, probably by paying working mathematicians like Anthropic did. But I disagree that this low-quality writing is somehow a good reason to be angry at OpenAI specifically, otherwise you would have to be angry at a lot of people.


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SilverSlash • today at 6:48 AM

> There are plenty of published mathematical papers that are just as poorly written as OpenAI's. Nobody says nothing because the authors are big names.

Can you provide some evidence of this claim? "Nobody says nothing" probably works on reddit but I generally expect higher quality discourse on hackernews.

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robotpepi • today at 6:41 AM

These takes forget that OpenAI is doing all this as a PR stunt. They're utilizing the field without worrying about any consequence to it.