Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH

Posted by bananaflag on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:58AM
from the hexagonmath.org dept.

https://hexagonmath.org/2610.00577v1

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Re:Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH by throw310822 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:47AM (#50255419)

So Anthropic claims that Claude disproved ETH on October 16, the exact same day OpenAI did it.

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Re:Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH by fwip on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:02AM (#50258550)

Wonder if they were editing the same wiki.

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Re:Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH by eterevsky on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:10AM (#50258677)

Looks suspicious, but the proof is significantly different.

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Re:Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH by throw310822 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:39AM (#50259131)

It's interesting because the simultaneity proves how easy it was. Irrespective of whether they were independently working on the same problem, or someone in one company alerted the other, the fact that they arrived at it together can only mean that they just had to point their model to the problem to have it solved (they say it costed 14M tokens which is a nothing at API prices).

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Re:Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH by mmh0000 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:09PM (#50262301)

14M tokens is far less than I expected.

I've burned 14M tokens just having Claude build a Grafana dashboard.

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Re:Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH by tanseydavid on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:45PM (#50261907)

Newton meet Leibniz. Alexander Graham Bell meet Elisha Grey. Fable meet Astra.

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