First of all, we would like to see pre-registration, so that we don’t end up learning only about successes (and generally cherry-picking good results, while omitting negative results).
He is trying to steer the field towards generally better practices. I don’t think this is specifically a criticism of this particular OpenAI result, but more an attempt to change the standards.
First of all, we would like to see pre-registration, so that we don’t end up learning only about successes (and generally cherry-picking good results, while omitting negative results).
He is trying to steer the field towards generally better practices. I don’t think this is specifically a criticism of this particular OpenAI result, but more an attempt to change the standards.
Although he is likely to have some degree of solidarity with the IMO viewpoint and to share some of their annoyance with timing of all this, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1m3uqi0/comment/n40qbe9/