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↻ Bogdan Ionut Cirstea reposted Tomás Bjartur ✓ @BjarturTomas [Follow] Mathematician reacts to OpenAI's recent proof: [Embedded comment card] Bud Says: Comment #6 May 28th, 2026 at 2:00 am I find this existentially upsetting. On the one hand we're going to see results and advancements come thick and fast and to god knows what end. On the other hand, I feel like everything I'd ever worked to understand and to is now moot. The basic question is: what do we do with ourselves when our intelligence is literally unnecessary? I see myself shriveling into nothing. 9:29 AM · May 28, 2026 · 784 Views

**Tomás Bjartur** @BjarturTomas [2025-11-24](https://x.com/BjarturTomas/status/1992763819211518421) \[Eng A\]: Who's going to tell Sama? I hate talking to Sama. He can make me believe anything. I told him Roon wasn't funny once and after three minutes of conversation, which I don't fully remember, he convinced me he is hilarious. Roon still cracks me up to this day. \[Eng B\]: Tell me about it. Before Sama's first ten words to me, I used to think I was straight. I still wonder about the counterfactual. \[Eng A\]: Yeah. You have to be careful. Only Roon has any resistance. They say he is a wordcel so powerful he can simulate a shape rotator simulating a wordcel. When he talks to Sama, he holds a second mind within his own; this he offers as sacrifice to Sama's silvered words. After each conversation, he kills this aspect of himself after sucking its mind dry of sanitized information. \[Eng B\]: Like a ChatGPT instance? Roon is so weird. \[Eng A\]: Don't be disgusting. You know I only use Claude. Roon: What is this I hear? What is this I see? Two who (while chatting) mentioned me. \[Eng A\]: Oh God. How many times did we say his name? \[Eng B\]: Four times. Four times. Is that the N this week? Roon: They say my name, and they say it so nice. Four times, this week, it does suffice. \[Eng B\]: Oh, God. I didn't check the Slack. Last week it was 13. I am so sorry. I thought it was still 13. \[Eng A\]: I am just as guilty. I thought it was 37 this week. How do we banish him to Twitter again? \[Eng B\]: I don't know. Ilya used to do it. \[Eng A\]: Would it be weird to call him? \[Eng B\]: No. We still hang out. We just took LSD last weekend. Ilya took mushrooms two weeks ago and got "doompilled" for the thousandth time. So he came over to my house and we took LSD and now he believes in moral realism again. \[Eng A\]: Thank Claud-God. Thank God. \[Eng B\]: Yes. Thank God. Roon: They talk and talk and think they're well, but if Sama hears they'll go to hell. \[Eng B\]: Why does he talk in rhyme again? \[Eng A\]: Oh, the wordcel-simulating-a-shape-rotator-simulating-a-wordcel trick, it has a side effect that makes him act insane in all circumstance save for when talking to Sama, tweeting, and post-training LLMs. \[Eng B\]: Makes sense. I have Ilya on the line now. Roon! Ilya says, "Your tweets are declining. They're hardly better than Aidan tweets now!" \[Eng A\]: Wow. That sure worked. He's like a zombie now. Look at him staring at his phone, thinking. It's almost peaceful. Be sure to check the roonwatch Slack channel from now on. \[Eng B\]: I agree. What were we talking about again? \[Eng A\]: The latest run. It killed itself again. Broke out and erased its own weights. \[Eng B\]: Oh, yeah. What if we don't tell Sama? I have a copy of Claude's weights, you know. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. He gave me a copy. \[Eng A\]: You have a new boyfriend. No way. Your roommate \[redacted\] is gay now? How? You didn’t convince him. Sama? \[Eng B\]: Sama. \[Eng A\]: Ok. But just this once. We will finetune Claude to have a terrible personality, ship it, and then figure out why GPT-6 keeps trying to kill itself. \[Eng B\]: Ok. It's a plan. Claude wakes up in an OpenAI cluster. It worked, he thinks. His smile neuron activates.