Responding to Dietterich: OpenAI's math results are a notebook to curate

seth_stafford · x · 2026-10-09

Replying to ttdietterich's framing that OpenAI's math release should be treated like a notebook of results left by a deceased mathematician, sethstafford argues dead mathematicians stop writing proofs, but this machine will keep cranking them out — meaning there will simply be a lot of curation work to do.

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