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Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter

286 points · 412 comments · simianwords

  1. 31ahg167 · · focus · HN ↗
    This was also guest-posted on Tao's blog. Tao has a flood of guest posts that cope in a varying degree. Most start with empathy, move on to inevitability and emphasize human understanding.

    Few of them mention research theft, none of them mentions concentration of capital and resources.

    The fact that Gowers quotes Tsimerman (OpenAI employee) says it all. A couple of mathematicians are determined to bulldoze forward with AI, and I suspect Tao will also continue after the meek concern letter and the cleverly worded guest posts that are subliminal ads for AI.

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