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Tao's Math 2.0 Talk Slides
Curran shares a Terence Tao 'Math 2.0' slide, questioning whether human comprehension matters for cures.
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- Andrew Curran shared a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture at Caltech and argued that a Stage 4 cancer patient would find human comprehension of a cure's mechanism irrelevant to them.
- François Chollet said AI shifted from a transductive paradigm (token-by-token answer completion) to an inductive paradigm (on-the-fly reasoning chain synthesis), calling it the big story of 2025 and 2026.
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This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them. https://t.co/LbKeaObeLz
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Reaction on X: Most replies were critical, calling the slide a poor analogy and arguing that you do not need to know how a drug works for it to work; one reply said 'good catch,' and the original poster responded only with 'Source:'.
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