OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof compiles clean, but the fluid vaporizes at 0.7 nm
OrganizationTop9026 · reddit · 2026-10-01
A neuro-symbolic AI team audited OpenAI's Lean 4 formal proof of 3D Navier-Stokes blow-up: mathematically valid and error-free, but mapped to real water the fluid vaporizes from friction at 0.7 nm, picoseconds before the singularity — classic specification gaming that exploits an unconstrained loophole while passing formal verification. They propose a third pillar for neuro-symbolic systems, a "physical boundary layer" checking solutions against physics, not just syntax. Paper on Zenodo (doi:10.5281/zenodo.22838708) and open-source audit scripts on GitHub.
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