Mathematician Elliot Glazer argues OpenAI should "slop drop" all its math results rather than hide them
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-23
Mathematician Elliot Glazer argues OpenAI should "slop drop" every math result it finds — releasing everything immediately — because hiding them would be worse for mathematicians.
Key points:
- "I'm a slop drop supporter. Dropping everything on the public immediately is personally what I'd recommend. Traditionally you'd distill the salient ideas and place them in the literature first — but retracing the entire history of the math community as slop drops wouldn't have produced a productive community."
- "Anyone saying OpenAI should hide it is even worse — every mathematician would wonder: is my problem on that list? Is my work just a minor sub-case of something OpenAI found a month ago?"
He also questions the presumed "mathematical consensus" favoring OpenAI's pause, noting few mathematicians were consulted — the pause was OpenAI's own choice.
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