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Comment by Davidzheng | Hacker News Reader

I don't even understand the conflict tbh. Probably I'm just dense. Tristan is not claiming NS, just a huge advance which may solve NS soon. OAI is claiming NS and willing to credit Tristan for the ideas and publish after.

Oai offers two options, the second Tristan views as dishonest. But Tristan rejects the first, why? Because he thinks it's theft? But then why would OAI threaten him?

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> But Tristan rejects the first, why? Because he thinks it's theft? But then why would OAI threaten him?

Did the first offer also come with the outrageous condition that he exclude his co-author from the credit?

But i don't understand what OAI is offering in the first offer to allow them to believe they can demand that? Not publishing before Tristan? If they really beat Tristan to the publication i would consider it truly morally corrupt conduct so i feel like you can't make an offer like if you give me something i won't be totally corrupt

As an author on the final proof once ready for publication, turning the brewing conflict into "willing" collaborators. Thus solving the potential taint like we are now seeing surrounding their announcement if it became public. But Tristan worked with another collaborator from Anthropic which OpenAI felt would hurt the PR value so wouldn't entertain.

He claims to have found a counterexample for NS (see the second paragraph of the article), but the paper is not ready yet.

OpenAI claims to already have a full proof (which they produced in the past 5 days after the rumors leaked). Hence the dispute.

What I find interesting is the timeline of when he found counterexample for NS is very unclear. Did Tristan find a counterexample weeks ago or was it very recently? Was it after OpenAI solved it? The wording is intentionally vague.

Either way, there was a massive rush to publish these results.

Is that version of NS Tristan stated enough for the clay prize? I thought the main gripe is Tristan claimed that OAI is stealing their approach. Or that they shouldn't try to scoop a result which he expects to complete soon. But I stand to be corrected if you know whether the version he referred to is indeed enough for millennium prize.

Hypo-dissipative NS != NS

Thanks, I wasn't aware of this technicality.

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