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Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

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Re: Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

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This is a self funded weekend project for me. It's not associated with any employer (:

> dedicated 60-vCPU server How many of these are you paying for out of pocket??

I own a dedicated 48vCPU with even 160GB RAM.. its not that expensive, check ebay, maybe now with mem prices it will be a bit more steep but as a hobby it's not crazy to think one owns such a piece of hardware. My dual GPU setup was more expensive I think.

Re: Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

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post #16

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What is their pay going to be justified by once computers start conjecturing and proving theorems on their own?

Mathematicians will be the ones who can tell us if the computer theorems are decent or not. Otherwise they’ll be the ones like Erdős who pose the questions in the first place. Either way it will always be humans who decide what matters. AI is speaking our languages, not the other way around. We’re in charge. It’s impossible for us not to be, unless we can train an AI from dolphin data or other natural phenomenon. The…

> Either way it will always be humans who decide what matters. AI is speaking our languages, not the other way around. We’re in charge. It’s impossible for us not to be, unless we can train an AI from dolphin data or other natural phenomenon.

AI companies are accruing power by virtue of its knowledge and ability to do work. If endowed with agency, which seems likely at this rate, it is the AI itself that will be powerful. And we'll be in charge because AI is trained on human language? I can't fathom the logic behind this.

Re: Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

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I didn't know people could just have GPT running on their own hardware. How does one...do that? Do you have a special relationship with OpenAI and they lock down your servers or something?

I think they meant they just ran a different context per invocation, not that they hosted the model themselves.

Re: Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

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post #30

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The job of a mathematician is to study mathematics, not to create proofs. An automatic proof solver doesn't make mathematicians obsolete any more than the excel sheet made accountants obsolete.

Conjectures and proofs are the fruit of the understanding. Nobody gets paid to think without producing anything.

How about philosophers?

Re: Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

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Isn't this sucking the fun out of math? It's not like we're going to get any tangible benefit out of them, so why not let mathematicians keep their jobs?

That’s the problem, the coupling of work with the right to survive

Re: Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

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Isn't this sucking the fun out of math? It's not like we're going to get any tangible benefit out of them, so why not let mathematicians keep their jobs?

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Re: Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

#39

I'm not sure how to interpret this part: "each running its own GPT-5.6 instance". GPT-5.6 is a closed source model and this seems to be a personal project and not something done by OpenAI.

yeah, is it API or codex?
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