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It might be because (very few!) mathematicians like Terence Tao make positive remarks. I think these mathematicians should be very careful to use reproducible and controlled setups that by their nature cannot take place on GPUs in the Azure cloud.

I have nothing against scientists promoting the Coq Proof Assistant. But that's open source, can be run at home and is fully reproducible.

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Keep in mind those mathematicians were kept in the dark about the funding: it is incredibly unethical to invite a coauthor to your paper and not tell where the money came from.

It's just incredibly scummy behavior: I imagine some of those mathematicians would have declined the collaboration if the funding were transparent. More so than data contamination, this makes me deeply mistrustful of Epoch AI.

I can't parse any of this, can you explain to a noob? I get lost immediately: funding, coauthor, etc. Only interpretation I've come to is I've missed a scandal involving payola, Terence Tao, and keeping coauthors off papers

Very few people were told the nature of the funding.

Wait, I think I somehow knew Epoch AI was getting money from OpenAI. I'm not sure how, and I didn't connect any of the facts together to think of this problem in advance.

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