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Gowers, Tao and Lichtman are especially impressed by the funding of math.inc and the AI for Math Fund, a joint venture of Renaissance Philanthropies and XTX Markets.

Renaissance Philanthropies is a front for VC companies.

They never publish allocated computational resources, prior art or any novel algorithm that is used in the LLMs. For all we know, all accounts that are known to work on math stunts get 20% of total compute.

In other words, they ignore prior art, do not investigate and just celebrate if they get a vibe math result. It isn't science, it is a disgrace.

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Is your justification in dismissing Fields medalists that they are impressed by funding? Not even receiving it (I assume you say this because Tao is not funded by AI for Math, but rather an advisor for it)?

Not only would it be a leap to suggest that people automatically lose their integrity by taking funds for projects they believe are useful, especially after involvement with adjacent fields, but you are suggesting merely being impressed by a fund is enough to dismiss their views?

You also have no evidence that Renaissance Philanthropies is a front for VC companies. All news coverage indicates that they seek to be an alternative for high net worth individuals engaging in philanthropy.

Many people discovering Erdos results, engaging in Olympiads etc, are doing so with publicly available models and publish the resources used in the process.

Renaissance "Philanthropy" brainwashes children with AI, which is child abuse:

https://www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/insights/renaissance...

https://www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/insights/embedding-a...

It promotes "agentic science", which will destroy science further:

https://www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/insights/open-source...

No one publishes. Please show me papers about the math proof logic in ChatGPT that are as detailed as those from Boyer/Moore/Kaufman for prior work.

If they are on arxiv.org with 50 authors in a sea of slop, I didn't find them. If they exist, they are certainly not from Gowers, Tao or Lichtman.

You have all the upper hand because your AI shills back you up here, but nothing of substance.

This is getting insane. You have no evidence for your initial claims and didn't respond to a thing I said, and are now claiming using AI for education is "child abuse". Please get help.

There is also no evidence that Radio Free Europe is still linked to the CIA. Just look at the donors of Renaissance Misanthropy.

But we are feeding a sealion who does not know how the math proof logic in LLMs work, probably because it is a highly computationally expensive random restart hack calling Lean that is unpublishable.

Many of these results don't rely on repeatedly calling Lean. You have no clue what you're talking about.

> Just look at the donors of Renaissance Misanthropy. If you're actually interested, who funds each project is listed in the PDF here. https://www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/annual-reports

As you can see, it's mainly philanthropic projects of wealthy families.

They literally operate on the model developed by Kleiner Perkins:

https://www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/the-fund-model

But get your AI friends to downvote truth and sink the entire submission, because that is how the AI fascists operate.

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