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1. get publicity 2. push for regulation so that no one else is allowed to do this kind of research apart from the pre-approved big corps
it makes for a good story but I don't see what the big deal is. they left some code running and it brute forced hacked something. with enough compute you can brute force anything; isn't that common knowledge?
the most likely and obvious explanation is that there was a mistake in the final report not in the raw data. they just rounded the percentages first and gave them to someone who then made the report with the number of votes based on that.
you can’t really distinguish a mistake from fraud in this case. and then they will fix the mistake and people will say “aha we caught them and now they try to hide it”
they will not be delivered. Tesla was allowed to pick them up.
"just" push the state of the art. unlikely, even if they have access to everything. they need the people and even then it's unlikely.
why chemistry and not physics? how do they draw the line?
avoiding escalation seems like a sensible thing at this point as it’s clear neither side can easily win.