Obvious crackpot; says on Twitter that there’s a $1 billion prize for “breaking” BNSL funded by Derek Parfit’s family office. I’d cut him more slack for potentially being obviously joking, if it wasn’t surrounded by claims that sounded also crackpottery to me. https://twitter.com/ethanCaballero/status/1587502829580820481
Ethan has an unusual communication style, but he’s not a crackpot, and this work is legit (according to me, the anchor author). I haven’t listened to the interview.
Well, I am Ethan’s primary supervisor (since 2020), and really appreciate his provocative sense of humor (though not everyone does 😀) - regarding the BNSL paper though, it’s 100% serious (though I did promise to double the $1B prize on Twitter; like advisor like student 😜)
Obvious crackpot; says on Twitter that there’s a $1 billion prize for “breaking” BNSL funded by Derek Parfit’s family office. I’d cut him more slack for potentially being obviously joking, if it wasn’t surrounded by claims that sounded also crackpottery to me. https://twitter.com/ethanCaballero/status/1587502829580820481
I am co-supervising Ethan’s PhD, and we previously wrote another ML paper together: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00688
Ethan has an unusual communication style, but he’s not a crackpot, and this work is legit (according to me, the anchor author). I haven’t listened to the interview.
Well, I am Ethan’s primary supervisor (since 2020), and really appreciate his provocative sense of humor (though not everyone does 😀) - regarding the BNSL paper though, it’s 100% serious (though I did promise to double the $1B prize on Twitter; like advisor like student 😜)