One of the greatest mathematicians alive almost got kicked out of his PhD program because he was staying up late playing video games.
Terence Tao was in his early 20s and assumed his “general” exam would be easy, so he barely studied.
It wasn’t.
He nearly failed.
Even Terence Tao has lost to video games.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.
The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.
The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
being good at video games generalizes to everything else, as long as you break out of video games
countless degenerates wasting a decade+ of their lives
anyone i know who moved on are wildly successful people