Comment by gexla

10 hours ago

Right, easy comparison to make the the open source community for software.

And it's not like this is something where we're loaned some top math genius for a limited amount of time and we have to make the most of it. Rather, this is a new high water mark. The accessibility of the results is no longer scarce. The scarcity has shifted, and that's where the focus of the math ecosystem should shift as well. And it doesn't help for a frontier community to saturate and take over messaging pipelines that were typically managed by the math ecosystem. It's not about "stay in your lane" but rather "we need coherence and be careful not to break the system."

Just two cents from someone who could screw up basic cashier math on any given day.

OpenAI has kicked things over. Dealing with that is the math community's problem. OpenAI had absolutely no obligation to defer to that community's deficiencies. If this has upset their reward system and historical traditions, tough luck.