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That's a fake explanation, it skips explaining/justifying how OpenAi "heard about" the result
by calf 26d ago
That's a fake explanation, it skips explaining/justifying how OpenAi "heard about" the result
- famouswaffles 26d agoWe are told in the statement that there were rumours already going around about a Stokes result (I even know about the rumors in question. It was all over twitter in the right spaces) and that Tristan contacts OpenAI about the rumors. In the message, it's pretty clear Tristan has made some result. So either the rumors or Tristan's contact would explain it fine.
- calf 26d agoOne should not evaluate explanations based on level of "fine"/innocuousness, in ethics that is called motivated reasoning or something. The whole point of Tristan's first email was to address the issue of the rumors so in fact this explanation confounds several things (in terms of the mutual knowledge of the conversants and their intentions). Based on this lack of understanding it is pointless to continue this thread
- tristanj 26d agoThe rumors that Anthropic had solved a millennium problem were absolutely everywhere last week. I'm not surprised at all that OAI took their own stab at it.
- calf 26d agoIt has no legs as an "explanation" because the content of the email (as described) already acknowledges as much. It's the whole reason he wrote contact email. His chief complaint now includes how the hell did Altman's people know specifically his line of attack down to certain technical keywords. E.g. AI plagiarism.
- desterothx 25d agoWhere were you seeing those roumors? Care to point to an HN post?