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New comment by TripolitianFish in "OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers"

TripolitianFish — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:12:52 +0000

What are you on about. The papers are held to scrutiny, this is how it works. If you put something out there, you should have done the due diligence of checking it (which is how these errors were found, with their own weaker model!). Being a smug prick about checking results that were announced as progress is less than worthless.

New comment by TripolitianFish in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

TripolitianFish — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:07:31 +0000

He’s not strawmanning you as much as taking OAI at their word. Plausibly the majority of the work was done with a fractional amount of human oversight, and maybe he’s sort of operating on the assumption they’re running “every” open problem continuously, which is pretty sensible. If you’re a mathematician working on an open problem which other people know about (how much of actual mathematics work is this kind of workflow varies from field to field) you can be pretty certain that an AI lab is prompting at it.

New comment by TripolitianFish in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

TripolitianFish — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:58:43 +0000

What are you even saying. Mathematics largely happens “commit by commit” as insufferable as that is a way of saying it, via conferences and meetings and prepublications. You’re attributing some bizarre to morality how mathematicians operate. You’re just upset people aren’t playing at your playground enough to your liking.

Also “real mathematicians” aren’t the people who “math belongs to”, you’re a mathematician if you do math, that’s it.

New comment by TripolitianFish in "Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP"

TripolitianFish — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:30:05 +0000

I don’t think you hate to be snide even a little bit, if I’m honest. The difference being that the entirety of mathematics research has never pulled in the CapEx that anthropic or OAI is. Mathematicians in academia are mostly paid to teach, mind you.

I’m personally pretty excited by the results coming from these labs, but trying to dismiss the capital allocation objection with “but what about” is really silly.

New comment by TripolitianFish in "There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy"

TripolitianFish — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:31:21 +0000

Not to mention the money grifters (à la manosphere freaks) rake in, or the regular reports of people using LLMs as therapists and friends.

Not sure what the point of closing your eyes and plugging your years is

New comment by TripolitianFish in "Waymo in Dallas"

TripolitianFish — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:28:17 +0000

You certainly could argue that! As you could argue any number of contrived political inferences which are more fun to think about than be of any real use.

New comment by TripolitianFish in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

TripolitianFish — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:30:42 +0000

I’d love to live in the USA you’re talking about friend.

This is just oriental despotism paranoia, whatever cutsie repetition slogan you come up with is not a serious argument.

New comment by TripolitianFish in "We want Texans to know their rights"

TripolitianFish — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:31:08 +0000

Either argue the point or stop talking. This is a very hard position to take seriously, twee frowny face and all, if you’re willing to sell down the river the privacy of a largely vulnerable population because some sanctimonious humanism. :(

New comment by TripolitianFish in "Latent Space as a New Medium"

TripolitianFish — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:46:34 +0000

The onus is not on the commenter. The author made badly qualified statements. Thinking of anything as an oracle is dangerous, an “oracle” is not just another “tool” it’s a religion

New comment by TripolitianFish in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

TripolitianFish — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:37:19 +0000

Inconceivable

New comment by TripolitianFish in "Flock Defense "No Expectation of Privacy in Public" Is Wrong"

TripolitianFish — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:00:07 +0000

You’re braindead, hand waving an argument with common sense isn’t actually interacting with anyone in a meaningful manner, you would be more use saying this to a wall.

The point the original poster is making is that this is a private system which has a high potential for abuse and often is abused, à la the posters “hysterics”, as you driveled, of people taking pictures of children and sharing it amongst themselves. Nitwit

New comment by TripolitianFish in "sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)"

TripolitianFish — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:47:34 +0000

> plain wrong > (in my experience) What are you even saying.