12 points tokepi 3 hours ago 8 comments

vishna 55 minutes ago | parent

This is OpenAI’s etc version of getting unpaid internships from phd students

1293475 39 minutes ago | parent

The authors are all in computational mathematics and AI. This is the soft power version of the OpenAI repo to get people to work for free. Maybe call it OpenOpenAI.

turzmo 36 minutes ago | parent

If mathematicians didn't enjoy digging their own graves with formalization before, perhaps they will enjoy digging their own unmarked, mass graves now?

pixl97 9 minutes ago | parent

We should burn the excavators and dig holes with our hands.

sdenton4 34 minutes ago | parent

Feels like we need a new truth-state for mathematics: "Verified-but-Unproven" for results which we know to be true through formal verification, but without any coherent proof.

I would generally expect this state to resolve quickly to "Proven and Verified" (the tendency in mathematics historically has been for complicated first-proofs of results, followed by significant reductions in proof complexity as new tools and definitions become available), but may still be useful for assigning real credit to who/whatever produces reasonable proof for a brute-force-verified result.

lukax 12 minutes ago | parent

And now they can train on everything this community does. And with new models this community won't be needed anymore.

nostrebored 11 minutes ago | parent

right, and this would be a positive for the world.

athrowaway3z 7 minutes ago | parent

This experiment might be relevant: https://github.com/offline-ant/wiggums-proof-loop