Greg Egan mocks the AI math-prize race with a fake BSD conjecture 'breaking news'
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-11
Sci-fi author Greg Egan posted a satirical 'breaking news' bit: a secret team of human mathematicians working three years, racing two frontier AI labs with seven-figure budgets, to determine whether the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture was posed by three people or just two — a jab at the ongoing Clay Prize / OpenAI controversy.
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