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Scott Aaronson worked on watermarking text from GPT to catch plagiarizing. This is the most commercially naïve project ever, given, at the time, most of ChatGPT's paid usage was from students using ChatGPT's output to cheat on assignments. If anything this should serve to disprove his impure motives in reporting these results.

I think you are missing the forest in the trees. This is one of the world's leading experts in Quantum Computing, receiving ground breaking technical help, in his field of expertise from a commercially available AI.

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What he worked on is irrelevant. If you are a contractor for an American startup, it is highly likely that you received an options package, especially if you are high profile.

The help is not ground breaking. There are decades old theorem prover tactics that are far more impressive, all without AI.

Actually, this is wrong. The point of being a contractor is to __not__ give somebody an options package, or full-time employee benefits. My friends who are resident researchers at OAI do not get any option packages.

Regardless, his financial considerations are secondary to the fact, AI has rapidly saturated most if not all benchmarks associated with high human intelligence, and are now on the precipice of making significant advances in scientific fields. This post comes after a sequence of the ICPC and IMO both falling to AI.

You are hoping to minimize these advancements because it gives solace to you (us) as humans. If these are "trivial" advancements then perhaps everything will be alright. But frankly, we must be intellectually honest here. AI is soon to be, significantly smarter than even the smartest humans. And we must grapple with those consequences.

Yeah, contractors never get options, they get cash.

The help is not ground breaking as an argument, however being able to come up with it is and is something which decades old theorem prover tactics can't do at all (unless you fix N).

Two new accounts suddenly show up. This one named after a phrase that was mentioned just minutes ago ("crowd pleaser"). Huh? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408531