Noah

Honestly I have no clue what I'm doing, and at this point I'm just trying not to disappoint anyone.

[Noah @Goodnewsprad]

Im my head Johns the weapon, and hes something mundane like a Louisville slugger

[david @popcorngate]

soul eater meisters and their weapon

[🍞Marupan🍞 @marupan_desu]

Kojima levels of writting

[Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 @RuxandraTeslo]

We need to bring back the notion of "evil" in public discourse, because this is what this is.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

We just want cheaper gas, man.

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

I’m begging you all to watch this, he’s just yelling into the void. Funniest outcome possible.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

This is quite literally the most important thing we could do as a country.

[Geno-Pilled Social Club @puffin_time]

Supporting my Islamic cheese company, except I wanted ice cream

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Brutal community note.

[feef @feefal_]

people are truly out here using it for the smallest things asgfjdjgjh

[Noah @Goodnewsprad]

@Bemesda @DramaAlert Thats FDR not Theodore

[MattyG @meawoppl]

Wife told me these wouldn’t fit.

Little did she know I had trained for this moment for years.

[Jake Hanrahan @Jake_Hanrahan]

Most moral army in the world right here.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

After making you sicker and poorer with his war, Donald Trump now wants to buy your vote with $5,000 in taxpayer-funded blood money.

The most corrupt man ever to occupy the Oval Office.

[Noah @Goodnewsprad]

@Armand_Gman As a math student It depresses me too

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

Using their dead relatives as props for their bigotry. These people should be ashamed of themselves.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Oh ya for sure dude imagine a system like that

[Ryan Orhan @rynorhn]

tristan buckmaster just published a statement that is, if accurate, one of the ugliest things i’ve read out of a frontier lab.

not because of the math. because of what happened after openai found out two people were about to beat them to the punch.

buckmaster and levent alpöge spent a year pushing the córdoba / martínez-zoroa program to smooth forcing. august 15 they got blowup for boussinesq and 3d euler. lean-verified august 22.

they were paying openai out of pocket and dumping every draft into private codex sessions.

the program is obscure. almost nobody else was on it. this was not “paste the clay problem into a chatbot.”

then this:

> thursday sept 3, buckmaster emails openai privately. rumors are flying. he is trying to stop a mess, not start one.

> they reply the same day: give us details so we can “avoid competing.” also, want free compute?

> sunday they suddenly need a call “at any point today.” sebastien bubeck gets on. levent is not invited.

> openai says an internal model has a ~100-page proof of forced navier–stokes blowup. fefferman options c and d. the exact route buckmaster and alpöge had quietly chosen.

> they show him a prompt and claim the model was “simply given the problem statement.” levent is told “very little human input.”

> that falls apart on the same call. a whole team had been on it. they started on the unforced problem, warmed the model up on easier equations including euler, and even the prompt they showed him was written by prompting codex.

> he asks when the first prompt went out. they stall. then agree: the past few days. after information about his work reached openai.

> he asks whether the model was trained on, or had access to, the private codex sessions where they put every draft of this project.

> answer: the model does not look up user data.

> he asks again. about training.

> no answer.

then it stops being a science story and becomes an hr story.

> offer 1: you post euler. we post navier–stokes the next day.

> offer 2: after you post euler, you alone write the navier–stokes paper, credit our model, and we cut levent.

> bubeck says twice he wants levent removed from authorship because he works at anthropic.

he declines both.

he says if they release it that way, he goes public.

the reply is not a scientific objection.

> “why would you ruin your career?”

> “if you don’t want me to be nice, then i don’t have to be nice.”

later, a text to levent proposing a one-on-one:

> “i don’t know if tristan is being fully rational right now.”

that is not how you treat a collaborator. that is how you split one.

openai got word two researchers were closing a path almost nobody else was on. they spun up a team on that exact path. they would not answer whether the researchers’ unpublished drafts in openai’s product were used. they tried to dictate the announcement order. they tried to remove a coauthor because he works at a competitor.

when that failed, someone reached for a career threat.

this is a lab finding out academics were about to publish, sprinting the same narrow program, refusing the data question, and trying to manage credit around a rival affiliation.

really slimy if even half of this holds.

what the fuck is happening.

[Exomnium @Exomnium]

all other allegations aside, "we caught wind that a mathematician might be about to solve a famous problem so we spent $15 million on tokens to scoop them" is exactly why OpenAI is completely full of shit when it says it wants to work with the academic community in a positive way

[Cogito @cogito_yuri]

sam altman might actually be the most evil tech CEO of all time, do you all have any idea just how high that bar is?