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The coincidence is that they took the correct path out of “every possible one” exactly after one of their users took it.

Monkeys on typewriters excuse only works for huge companies who can afford to buy opinions.

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> The coincidence is that they took the correct path out of “every possible one” exactly after one of their users took it.

From what I read online that researcher also used a lot of AI to find this approach, so it might just be the one that is the easiest to find for AI agents and the timing would then only be caused by them working on it around the same time.


They also took the correct path for hundreds of other problems, where they didn't have a user that already did.

> The coincidence is that they took the correct path out of “every possible one"

My point was explicitly that this didn't happen. I said that they took every possible path and published the one that worked. It's exactly throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.

> exactly after one of their users took it.

All parties agree that what happened is that someone had told someone working at OpenAI that Anthropic employees are working on Navier stokes. This is where the timing comes from.

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What you are implying is this: OpenAI didn't do the throw shit at the wall approach as outlined in their release blog they actually secretely monitor everyones chat logs and found the idea in Tristan's Chat history and stole and published it.

Or some variant of this. You are only implying what you think is the truth, please state it outright. Don't beat around the bush.




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