Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' Caltech lecture: results can outrun human understanding
khademinori · x · 2026-10-11
Andrew Curran shared a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture at Caltech. The point being made: if a cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would say that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them — an argument that AI-driven mathematical and scientific progress can be valuable even when humans don't fully understand it, a core theme of the lecture.
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