Been sleeping on this thought. I’m surprised by how much people are willing to indulge SBF’s weird EA ideology/funky math ideas as some sort of meaningful mitigating factor that moves him from scammer bucket to good/well-intentioned. To me it puts him into the terrorist buck

OpenAI accused of stealing math proof from expert Andreas Thom | Valerio Capraro posted on the topic | LinkedIn

BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof. In a detailed Mathstodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov’s soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved. I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem. If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself. And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents. We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science. AI is not discovering new mathematics. AI is stealing human discovery. | 201 comments on LinkedIn

Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything (Ep. 45)

Is he secretly the best young economist today?

How Not to Play the Game

Magic beans, Bahamian penthouses, old-fashioned fraud and other important SBF-inspired insights. A postscript to Bloomberg Businessweek’s The Crypto Story.

If you're so smart, how come you're not SBF? The Kelly criterion and choice of expectations and utility function when bet sizing

There has been a very interesting discussion on twitter, relating to some stuff said by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), who at the time of writing ...

Analysis | Google’s AI pointed him to a customer service number. It was a scam.

There’s a new AI twist on a travel scam that has fooled people for years. Here’s what you need to know.

Guy on Twitter / X

If the "price" of intelligence is going to zero, what does that do to the "prices" of rationality, and of wisdom? pic.twitter.com/d0TR3SITfJ— Guy (@nosilverv) June 8, 2026

👁️ Son of Sam: Aschenbrenner was SBF 2.0

Another EA nukes Billions on long bets. This one won't go to prison.

Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg

archived 12 Mar 2026 21:01:45 UTC

Kevin A. Bryan on Twitter / X

I love that this idea has crossed into normie world (please don't look up Sutton's AI Ethics views!). If you want a very short "why does SF believe what it believes", here is the reading list I give students: https://t.co/1vkWtwWwRV pic.twitter.com/zo4YaoNSKf— Kevin A. Bryan (@Afinetheorem) September 23, 2026

Thomas Wolf on Twitter / X

Very thoughtful piece from Kevin Buzzard (perfect IMO score, number theorist, pioneer of formal maths in Lean)if math is not just about “human understanding,” then what is it about?and if ai capabilities keep growing exponentially what happens since “mathematics is infinite”? https://t.co/h7yYmZS01T pic.twitter.com/wFp2fec52Q— Thomas Wolf (@Thom_Wolf) October 2, 2026

Thomas Wolf on Twitter / X

wtf is this way to handle mathematicians work and scientific communicationTLDR: Leven and Tristan worked over several months on one of the Millenium Prize Problems with various AIs to reach final interesting results. OpenAI apparently heard about it in the last days and… https://t.co/zNozwkFcFO pic.twitter.com/XcefJ17AQe— Thomas Wolf (@Thom_Wolf) September 8, 2026

The Math Superstar Who’s Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI

Jacob Tsimerman won the biggest prize in math. Now he’s working on the most important problem of his career.

Don't let AI make you dumber - Marginal REVOLUTION

That is the topic of my latest Free Press column, here is one excerpt: I do not think the skeptics would put it this way, but as I read Conti, I find he has a pretty bleak fundamental view of humanity. Are we all really just looking to veg out and abandon curiosity and inquiry, […]

The War on Cash

Banks, governments, credit card companies and fintech evangelists all want us to believe our cashless future is inevitable and good. But this isn't a frictionless utopia says Brett Scott, and it's time to fight back​

Narrative over numbers: Andreessen Horowitz's State of Crypto report

Venture capital firm and crypto pusher Andreessen Horowitz wants you to keep buying crypto, and is not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince you to do so.

The Cult of Bayes' Theorem

I'm no longer a skeptic, but still I can't resist the old skeptic urge to do a bit of debunking. After all, there are a lot of crackpots out there. There are people, for example, who believe that a superintelligent computer will arise in the next twenty years and then promptly either destroy humanity or cure death and set us free. There are people who believe that one of the best works of English literature is an unfinished Harry Potter fanfic by someone who can barely write a comprehensible English sentence. There are even people who believe the best thing you can do to help the poor and the starving is become a city stockbroker or Silicon Valley entrepreneur! And more often than not, the same people believe all these crazy things!