On: Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics

[leereeves]

Is it really "collaboration" if someone takes results discovered by other people and uses them without acknowledgement?

[jatora → leereeves]

It's more collaboration than what was happening before, if all you care about is the knowledge, not the accolades.

[leereeves → jatora]

The accolades matter for more than pride; they lead to money that funds more work.

[pfdietz → leereeves]

I think part of what's getting the goat of some mathematicians is not that OpenAI is getting results, but that OpenAI is telling mathematicians that priority isn't something they care about. The indifference is more threatening to the current traditions of math than if they were actually fighting for priority. The indifference gets reinterpreted as them trying to "steal glory" but that's not what they're doing. They're bulldozing glory.

[KoolKat23 → leereeves]

Well I guess it's time the mathematics business model is updated.