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mastodon — John Carlos Baez — 19 Oct 2026

OpenAI, Anthropic and the Simons Institute have promised to contribute enough money to pay a typical US math postdoc to…

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OpenAI, Anthropic and the Simons Institute have promised to contribute enough money to pay a typical US math postdoc to work for 2 months on each of the 719 papers OpenAI recently released: 15,000,000/(719×15,000,000/(719 × 125,000) ≈ 1/6 where $125,000 is typical annual salary + benefits + overhead.

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