The problem is that the reasoning traces are kept secret. OpenAI doesn't publish them because it would lead to distillation attacks from other AI companies.

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drichel an hour ago | parent [-]

The reasoning traces were traditionally keept secret by legacy mathematicians as well.

"When the architect completes a fine building, he removes the scaffolding." - Carl Friedrich Gauss

	▲	cubefox 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Legacy mathematicians can nontheless remember much of how they came up with their proof. Even though they (as Gauss says) usually don't publish this, they can still answer questions about it at conferences and workshops, or otherwise use the knowledge of the creation process to explain their proof. It's not a secret in the sense of OpenAI.