Blogger finds two fundamental contradictions in Terence Tao's Math 2.0 AI vision
layer07_yuxi · x · 2026-10-14
Blogger layer07yuxi argues Terence Tao's "Math 2.0" vision contains two fundamental contradictions: (1) wanting AI to aid human understanding is incoherently justified — if understanding has utilitarian value, big tech will do it anyway; if not, outsiders shouldn't care — citing Robert Weinberg's observation that curiosity, not world-saving motives, drives real breakthroughs; (2) Tao's "open source AI" really means AI controlled by insiders (mathematicians), while in 2026 superhuman math AIs are closed and controlled by big corps — who are the actual outsiders.
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