Terence Tao posts insightful thread reacting to the Navier-Stokes announcement
Darpinian · x · 2026-09-09
François Chollet shared and recommended a "really insightful" thread by Terence Tao, apparently written in reaction to OpenAI's Navier-Stokes announcement. Darpinian adds: even in a world where humans no longer understand the frontier of math, physics and other fields concerned with real-world behavior can provide the grounding that decides whether "progress" is actually moving in a useful direction.
The post itself is a commentary pointing to Tao's original thread—a notable heavyweight reaction within the ongoing Navier-Stokes controversy.
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