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points by esalman 3 days ago | 0 comments
Working with academic communities lol.

I looked over the announcement for any substantial contribution, and found they're donating $5 million to a research foundation.

$5 million might sustain 5-10 PhD students for 5 years.

Maybe it's just me but I think they should contribute more in exchange for forcing the scientific community into paying for tokens to generate slop and then pouring their time into verifying or falsifying the slop.

[–] quantumspandex 3 days ago
No one "forces" anyone to verify it.
[–] LPisGood 3 days ago
I said the same thing in another thread and someone compared it to no one forcing you to own a smart phone. I will preempt that argument by saying the community is motivated to verify these results because they are important to the field.
[–] esalman 3 days ago
That means there's no crisis in mathematics after all, right?