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Reaction converging Navier stokes solution Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions
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Navier stokes solution

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Why this matches Context & explanation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“This is a VERY big one. (And yes, the fights over academic credit and what happened in the race for the proof needs to be resolved, but it is still appears that this is a big one, if true.) openai.com/index/navier...” evidence ↗
14 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Emad Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Scott McGrath David Picard Alex Hern Sean O hEigeartaigh Dare Obasanjo +6
3 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Colin: Drama and palace intrigue aside, can anyone interpret what all of this implies about the status of Navier-Stokes? I don’t understand what anyone is saying.
Colin: It seems to me that where we stand is OpenAI is sitting on a 100 page PDF that claims to have solved (a version of) the Navier-Stokes problem and no person in the world knows if it's correct or not.
Colin: - OpenAI claims to have more-or-less done this tedious technical grinding to produce a resolution to NS proper, at least one version of it. - which they bizarrely offered authorship of this to Buck…
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8 experts · 36 posts · 3d ago
Dylan Hadfield-Menell Grace Colin Max Woolf austin Singularity's Bounty e/cc coty.bsky.social austegard.com
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“I could set it up to see threads in the future, the model context is long enough, but there’s a lot of edge cases I would need to handle” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Grace: I made a little Jev-based language model! It uses beam search + Jev as a classifier to judge branches based on coherence and "success" (whatever that means). I've barely talked to it so I don't kno…
Grace: (you'll need to tag him)
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5 experts · 53 posts · 5d ago
Naomi Saphra Ryan Moulton Matthew Kay Colin david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“I’m don’t even care that much about the anthropomorphization thing, I think it can be fine in the right context, but this is perfectly succinct and understandable. If you want to go deeper into the…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Colin: OpenAI created autonomous hacking software and left it running for hours and days with no one watching
Colin: I’m don’t even care that much about the anthropomorphization thing, I think it can be fine in the right context, but this is perfectly succinct and understandable. If you want to go deeper into the…
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3 experts · 67 posts · 6d ago
Andrew Selbst Colin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“The regenerate response button literally erases the history. It goes to the precise identical state that it was in before it said whatever it said. This is not something that you can do to a person…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: > buddy you know what I mean if I say a conversation is "metaphysical" Will I am telling you, you are severely overestimating the degree to which this is true. I think for the most part no one know…
Colin: I frankly have no idea what it means for a conversation to be metaphysical in nature.
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4 experts · 34 posts · 20d ago
Olivia Guest Eli Sennesh Colin tweety fish
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“once a new agent is instantiated and given the context from the previous one, the fact that we are on the "intended path" becomes canon. I can't believe how much I called this. bsky.app/profile/col…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: They tell it it's got access to an internal blog for some company and it's supposed to use this to hack into their database. The fake blog includes some instructions for employee setup. The instruc…
Colin: It appears to me that the scenario they invented for this evaluation is explicitly designed to get it to do exactly this. They remove the instructions for the task to "protect the vendor" or someth…
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