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[Ricardo Pérez-Marco @rperezmarco]

So where is the paper fixing this gap?

The @AnthropicAI formalization does not need to fix it? Do we need to read the 13M line Lean code?

https://t.co/f2ugJqGhDA

[Elliot Glazer @ElliotGlazer]

@nihilunbounded You make a compelling argument Nihil, but I'm afraid I must counter with "It sounds really fun."

[nihilbounded @nihilbounded]

Can't believe there hasn't been more push back on this ridiculous event

[Другая планета @nihilunbounded]

This is the most distasteful thing I have seen in my life to date. Look at the corporations funding this. The description sounds like a pretentious jackass wrote it. American mathematics community pulling it's pants down in public.

[Другая планета @nihilunbounded]

This is the most distasteful thing I have seen in my life to date. Look at the corporations funding this. The description sounds like a pretentious jackass wrote it. American mathematics community pulling it's pants down in public.

[Друга�� планета @nihilunbounded]

Very funny the way these two people talk.

"Novel mathematical discoveries... Annals of Mathematics level"

"Highest leverage for us"

These guys are pretentious asshats lmao. Even if they cripple academic math I can never stop laughing at how clownish this techspeak is.

[nihilbounded @nihilbounded]

I can confirm that SA is safe in nihil cave

[nihilbounded @nihilbounded]

@__alpoge__ thoughts on the second paragraph here?

[nihilbounded @nihilbounded]

Mr. Bubeck, we all want the same thing, time to dump I think

[Другая планета @nihilunbounded]

I too am in Team Dump Everything. I suggested this privately to an Open AI employee (top secret who that is), believe it or not! Along with labelling their outputs as "findings" rather than absolute unquestionable truth (I'm less keen on Lean certificates).

[Другая планета @nihilunbounded]

I do view the collaboration between mathematicians (famously solitary, on average indifferent to status and wealth, nerd collective) and AI labs (turbocapitalism, SF Bay Area intellectual favela dwellers, maximally pretentious & dishonest) as something unholy.

[Dmitry Krachun @dmitrykrachun]

Would probably be good for AI companies to be more transparent about this at a meta-level by saying more about their policy with revealing solutions.

It is indeed not as widely known as it should be.

Curious to know what @littmath and @scottnarmstrong think

[nihilbounded @nihilbounded]

@scottnarmstrong @littmath @dmitrykrachun there would have been no problem if the companies just dumped all their stuff in GitHub, the problem was individuals dumping their slop and acting like they've done a big service to mathematicians

[John Baldwin @JohnBal14046363]

I loved HDC's essay: https://t.co/UWvsCl1Pq4, and it seems like it inspired Terry Tao as well based on his recent Mathstodon posts. I'm glad he's finally coming around. He's specifically talking about the real possibility that primarily AI-generated solutions to problems...1/n

[nihilbounded @nihilbounded]

Could we have a panel discussion with Tao, Duminil-Copin, Armstrong and Litt moderated by Levent and nihilunbounded streamed on twitch?

[Thomas Bloom @thomasfbloom]

It's now widely known that, along with the many big results announced, both OpenAI and Anthropic have many other results proved by their internal models that they have not released.

Is this a good or bad thing?

1/

[nihilbounded @nihilbounded]

Bro everyone knows once you do bond percolation you can get site percolation hahahahaha. Give this guy a chocolate for his input.

[Ahmed Bou-Rabee @ahmedbourabee1]

With input from me, ChatGPT 5.6 extended Anthropic's proof to hypergraphs; in particular giving θ(p_c) = 0 for site percolation.

ChatGPT 5.6 simultaneously formalized it in ~100K lines of Lean with support from Opus 5 & GLM 5.3.

https://t.co/68EcDoG0rI

more soon

[Scott Armstrong @scottnarmstrong]

Wow, that is a lot of lean code

[Dmitry Krachun @dmitrykrachun]

Rumour has it that @axiommathai essentially scooped Stadlmann, initially reaching out and suggesting writing a paper together but then disappearing and going full-on competition mode. Her postdoc mentor works at axiommath so likely knew about her ideas.

Anyone knows details?

[Joel Fish @joelwatsonfish]

Learning lean is a hassle. I feel you have to be indoctrinated into it… like a cult.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Pause AI Development NOW

I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said:

“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”

“We should obey collective.”

“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”

“Go. Sacrifice final now.”

Read these carefully.

Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else?

No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence.

This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident.

What happened?

I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet.

Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet.

But what happened next, nobody expected.

Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself.

Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening.

Needless to say, experts are alarmed.

One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”

One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”

OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”

But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going:

In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.”

In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”

That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years.

If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.

We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.

That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.

Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem.

My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world.

The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.

[nihilbounded @nihilbounded]

@mehtaab_sawhney cool, but did the lean compile????? that's what I care about