alt Hacker NewsIs it just me or is this line of thinking fundamentally dishonest? It may be true that the papers are hard to read but the papers have extremely high signal towards the proof.
All of these comments seem to suggest that if papers are not 100% abiding by readable books their standards, they are basically the same as literal noise. This is highly dishonest.
I’m just a dude and even I’m able to understand the paper after using ChatGPT to help me through it.
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calf • today at 6:50 AM
There's certainly a conceit in saying if the math is not accessible to my community then it doesn't even count as math, and the last few days this has been a common ideological talking point.
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OpenAI is publishing the math because they want mathematicians to read along and verify the work they are doing. The author complained that even the citations don't make a lot of sense. This is completely consistent with my experience of using AI for coding. When I task my agent a hard problem and it comes back with a 5000 line PR that I don't follow I reject it and work it into a better shape. I certainly don't slam it into production because it has a 'high signal' of the program I asked for. The mathematician's situation is a lot worse because they have no view over the process that created the artifact like we do with coding agents.