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steinwinde • today at 12:38 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

>> The more raw these proofs are, the better.

This was my opinion. But anyone arguing to publish "results immediately" is likely to imply something like it. I guess in chemistry we have the situation you envision - for different reasons: Laboratories holding back their data, until their scientists have published their papers or developed their products. There is a real danger AI companies will do something similar too.

Who do you expect they will select for the exposition?

On which basis do you want a (likely US based) AI company to decide who is to untangle a proof that their latest internal model has just spit out?

Do you expect this to fall to an aspiring, but still unknown mathematician at - say - the mathematics department of Nairobi university?! This is what I meant with my rather unclear "elite" reference: The first publication will always show the name of a mathematician already known to the field, more likely than not to come from the same country as the company ("Our message ... is, you’re a great American company, but you’ve got to hire great American workers"). Are you not worried at all? Don't you think it would be good, if anyone in mathematics had a chance to write that first paper on a new proof?