Thanks for putting this together in one spot!

Stuff like this highlights that the "info"dump was an act of contempt toward professional mathematics. If OAI actually gave a damn about people, they could have coordinated with actual researchers in the relevant fields to clean up the documents while putting a human face on them. Put everything behind NDAs, fund some grants and fellowships, and if it leaks? So what, it would have been actual good press and built hype. Plus, it would have weeded out the the obvious garbage and they'd have brought a lot of young researchers inside the tent.

But nooooooo, they chose violence, because they are assholes. They'll never forgive the academics for doing the work and actually being good at math and physics.

I know I'm preaching to the choir, but damn I'm stirred up.

First up: thanks for your hard work here in the sneer mines during these ridiculous times!

I saw this being ignored on HN and I thought that you might appreciate it:

Navier-Stokes Lost in Translation -- Why Lean Verification of AI Autoformalisation Does not Guarantee Correct Natural Language Proofs

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.08144

The authors point out that automatic translation of natural language mathematics into Lean is very hard, actually. They also highlight some examples of such translation errors in the Navier-Stokes "paper" published by OpenAI. They tread lightly and don't take a position on the correctness of the proof, but they do bring a large stack of receipts.

I also thought the reference to the Solvability Complexity Index (which is new to me) was interesting, and there's an appendix with an explainer on how the SCI hierarchy is constructed. According to this scheme, autoformalisation of natural language proofs is strictly harder than the Halting Problem.

I haven't had a chance to check on the bona fides of the authors.

This is all beyond my level, but I'd love to see what our local experts think of it in light of the recent gish galop.

Knowledge workers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your teeth.

Most of rationalism seems to be "Making up a guy and getting mad at him" doesn't it?

Thanks! :)

That 2015 quote was a real stinger. Literally the future-tense version of "we destroyed the world but think of all the shareholder value we created along the way!"

The Centre for Actual Creativity

I wonder how much would it cost to have a booth at Fringe to stir trouble with?

Following proton's recent development has been like seeing a friend become way too interested in gas station drugs

Look, AI will be perfect as soon as we have an algorithm to sort "truth" from "falsehood", like an oracle of some sort. They'll probably have that in GPT-5, right?

Fyre Festival as a Service

self-dodging bullet

Common DragonCon W. The whole con was a lovely reprieve from the bullshit-industrial complex.

Turkey has a big opportunity here to corner the market for non-mechanical turks

I use subscription services to get the best letters of the alphabet.

For example, I use WinnrWinnrChicknDinnr to get access to the letter W (upper AND lower case!) for only $69 a month!

No idea why they needed my SSN, but look I'm not some pleb that uses free letters.

Where are the bed sheets?

Also, where are the family photos? Framed art? Kid drawings?

Edit: Cobra Commander and the Baroness at home in a GI-Joe movie directed by Michael Bay circa 2008.

Edit2: Evil Sean Astin

Edit3: I've never seen a three-piece suit with dungarees. It's the mullet of suits: business on the top, party on the bottom.

I'm sorry, I'm being awfully mean and petty on the internet today.

They did it. They automated the fucking Vogons.

This guy's all dip and no chips

What if the Technocracy Movement fucked NASCAR

What if Nazis but the uniforms are Gildan instead of Hugo Boss

What if fascists were stopped with atomic wedgies instead of atomic bombs