Tristan Buckmaster's post, curated on eChai

Six hours after the statement, and the last thing Buckmaster said. It is also what his own statement said it had wanted to be about: a mathematician and a model did in a month what he expected to take years, and he calls it a Deep Blue and Kasparov moment for how the field trains students, assigns credit and decides what is worth a life's attention.

Tristan Buckmaster, in mastodon.social

I want to again express my profound gratitude to the outpouring of support from the greater mathematical community. I also want to remark that there is a far bigger story here than the one in my statement: the sheer magnitude of what frontier models can now do, and what that means for us all. I hope the labs can see this and set the petty posturing aside.

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