littmath: AI labs are "as shady as the median big company," wild by academic standards
littmath · x · 2026-09-11
In follow-up to the Navier-Stokes attribution controversy, mathematician littmath clarifies he's not claiming AI labs behave shadier than the median big company — just "as shady," which is wild by academic standards, though academia has its own pathologies.
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