https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fruitl00pHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:57:04 +0000Well I think in response to 'what are you going to do', what people are probably going to do is stop sharing on-going work, stop bothering to curate problems that are just going to inflate someone's IPO valuation, basically accelerating the tragedy of the commons that the AI companies are driving.

]]>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:16:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738645fruitl00phttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738645https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738645I thought one of the implicit points of the open letter was that unsolved problems are not something that falls out of the sky, they are a curated resource that people have spent time on and shared for the benefit of like-minded peers and humanity as a whole. And the AI companies treat them like they treat absolutely everything else: natural resources, literature, art, code etc. as something to be chucked into the ravening maw and pooped out the back as profit. They don't care if mathematics advances, they don't care if they strip-mine the available problems and damage the field. In fact, as with programming I think they see that as in their long-term interest - soon there will be no intelligence or creativity but the one that Sam Altman bills you for.

]]>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:45:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738432fruitl00phttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738432https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738432