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geordiew • today at 6:57 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I am a working mathematician. A problem that I cared about greatly (and probably spent > 3000 hours working on) was on their list. I looked at the paper, and I have to say it is more clearly written than about 30% of the papers I typically referee. I don't want to name poorly written papers, but I agree that "there are plenty of published papers that are just as poorly written as OpenAI's".


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SilverSlash • today at 7:08 AM

And which papers do you typically referee? Without that information this claim is meaningless. For example, if you referee free-for-all papers that today are likely written by LLMs as well then sure I can understand that. But if you referee papers from grad students then that's more concerning.

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saalweachter • today at 11:36 AM

Random questions--

Were you satisfied with the paper?

Having read the paper, do you understand "what you missed" in those 3000 hours?