Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' Slide Sparks Backlash Over AI Risk Attitudes
Dry_Radio_761 · reddit · 2026-10-11
A Reddit user shared a slide from Terence Tao's recent "Math 2.0" lecture and pushed back on its framing, arguing that Tao must never have met a terminal cancer patient if he believes no one would want to take such a risk — implying that for terminally ill people, aggressive risk-taking is rational. Slide contents could not be independently verified from the image.
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