Viral take: if AI takes math, Terence Tao outshines you at any white-collar job
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-23
A viral post frames the AI disruption of white-collar work through Terence Tao: he does math because he wants to, and if AI obsoletes it, he'd outperform anyone at any other white-collar job. There's no world where he ends up at McDonald's while you keep typing — if he's serving fries, you're in the lithium mines.
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