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The world's best mathematician won his prize this week and immediately announced he's leaving academia for OpenAI. That landed differently than I expected.
I've been thinking about this one all weekend and I keep coming back to the same thing. Jacob Tsimerman just won the Fields Medal. If you're not familiar, it's the highest honor in mathematics, only awarded every four years, roughly the Nobel Prize of the field. He got it for solving a problem that had been open for nearly 40 years. And then, at the press conference, on the same day, he announced he's leaving his university position to join OpenAI's safety team. His exact words were: "...
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