Eric Raymond slams mathematicians rejecting OpenAI's results as entitled
Sanity · x · 2026-10-09
Eric Raymond criticizes the faction of mathematicians who want to reject OpenAI's findings because they "didn't ask for this work to be done," slamming their sense of entitlement. A replier extends the point: "trying to ride the storm is an apt analogy for software dev in 2026," reflecting the cultural clash as AI enters mathematical research.
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