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OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]
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Re: OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]
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Re: OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]
#63The author of this paper has also apparently published a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis. yeah idk if they should be trusted as an authority on this.
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Re: OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]
#64The author of this paper has also apparently published a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis. yeah idk if they should be trusted as an authority on this.
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A lot of people who know mathematics say Nielsen’s paper is riddled with errors. I regret sharing it here. > Undergrad who hasn’t passed his first semester yet Not sure what you’re talking about. According to his wiki bio he’s done two years at Cambridge. He posted Maths questions from the 1B tripos exam, and was smart enough to get an OpenAI internship. Whereas it seems like the author of this paper has never been h…
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Re: OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]
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A lot of people who know mathematics say Nielsen’s paper is riddled with errors. I regret sharing it here. > Undergrad who hasn’t passed his first semester yet Not sure what you’re talking about. According to his wiki bio he’s done two years at Cambridge. He posted Maths questions from the 1B tripos exam, and was smart enough to get an OpenAI internship. Whereas it seems like the author of this paper has never been h…
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Re: OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]
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Re: OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]
#68The author of this paper has also apparently published a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis. yeah idk if they should be trusted as an authority on this.
From what I can tell it seems like they are probably wrong, but a mathematician publishing a paper about a well known unsolved problem in mathematics does not indicate they are a crank, even if their paper is wrong. This is a thing respected researchers in mathematics do.
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Re: OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]
#69Author is a crackpot. She does not meaningfully engage with anyone who points out the key flaw in her counterargument. See the thread here https://x.com/AcerFur/status/2083649346294382803
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Re: OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]
#70Jenny Nielsen does not make high risk claims. She lists her proofs that have not been peer reviewed as "proposals". She has a proposal for Riemann only because she believes it's the duty of every mathematician to try for these difficult problems so they get solved. Unless you have an accurate criticism of her papers, you should not be criticizing her for making attempts on big problems. You go find your own proof or disproof to invalidate her then.
Also, Claude Opus 4.6 in a fresh incognito copy says she killed the counterexamples and has repeated four times that it believes she actually proved Connes. Grok says they'd rather bet on Jenny and Opus 4.6 than Astra right now. I think that's shaping up for Nielsen over OpenAI.