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Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by whattheheckheck on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:19PM (#50252558)
Is this really as interpetable math is fundamentally. Like wtf is this accessibility? who is this for? Do top mathematicians read this like a chapter book? Absolutely ridiculous they have all this compute and creative resources and cant make something more intuitive to help people understand it more natively
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by vecter on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:50PM (#50252829)
It's a math paper written for mathematicians.

It's not possible for someone who's not a specialist in the field to understand it (unless there are more elementary proofs, of which likely none exist).

Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by eru on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:06PM (#50252995)
Even mathematicians take a long time to read math books and articles, especially if they go into the details. They don't read math like you would read a novel.
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by xeonmc on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:22PM (#50254016)
> They don't read math like you would read a novel.

siting on a recliner making an occasional sensible chuckle while flipping through the pages?

Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by NetMageSCW on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:47PM (#50252811)
Sometimes hard things are hard.
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by atlex2 on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:09PM (#50253020)
Actually, no - this is what controllability is all about. Humans have to understand it.
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by elzbardico on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:14PM (#50253070)
Humans can understand it. Not all of them, because to understanding it, there's a lot of other things you need to understand before.
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by paxy on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:46PM (#50253725)
It's sometimes okay to look at something, go "this isn't for me", and move on. You don't need to have an opinion on everything.
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by whattheheckheck on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:05AM (#50255189)
Same to you bud
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by serf on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:58PM (#50253814)
I agree with you insofar that the primary motivator for these press releases is public relations and investor confidence, so it should be made as minimally hard to understand as possible just by sheer virtue that it exposes oAI to more cash thrown at them.

I totally disagree with you on the precept that all difficult to understand things need be needlessly dumbed-down/watered-down until palatable for a mass (average) audience. Requiring 'math50' before 'trig101' isn't gate-keeping in any moral sense, it's an effort to save everyones' time involved when the effort is futile.

Similarly I don't demand that haute couture fashion companies explain the style to me until 'I get it' ; I just take it for granted that i'm not going to be able to understand the entirety of the world in one lifetime.

Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by eru on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:53AM (#50257761)
> I agree with you insofar that the primary motivator for these press releases is public relations and investor confidence, so it should be made as minimally hard to understand as possible just by sheer virtue that it exposes oAI to more cash thrown at them.

Why? The investors can just ask Claude or Gemini whether the proof holds up.

Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by ks2048 on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:55PM (#50254208)
> Absolutely ridiculous they have all this compute and creative resources and cant make something more intuitive to help people understand it more natively

OpenAI has that too - open their website and ask.

Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] by whattheheckheck on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:05AM (#50255195)
And get some hallucinated slop infotainment?