In other news, evangelical christians ask scientists to stop publishing about evolution.
We apparently have a moral obligation to protect existing power structures?
Tao should maybe consider there are people who are indifferent to, or actively want to tear down, his institutions; why should they cooperate in preserving them? Whatever happens has to be resilient in the face of defection; any scheme where everyone is expected to agree to not use AI in a way he doesn't like will not qualify.
I think he's in the "bargaining" stage of dealing with loss right now.
You have a practical obligation to obey existing power structures. That’s what makes it a power structure. What do you all think is happening here? There have been people who decided what math gets published for centuries.
> In other news, evangelical christians ask scientists to stop publishing about evolution.
not sure it's comparable, but the issue is that for a lot of those mathematical results, they don't really have utility by themselves. The utility is the new branches/understanding that's being developped.
In other news, evangelical christians ask scientists to stop publishing about evolution.
We apparently have a moral obligation to protect existing power structures?
Tao should maybe consider there are people who are indifferent to, or actively want to tear down, his institutions; why should they cooperate in preserving them? Whatever happens has to be resilient in the face of defection; any scheme where everyone is expected to agree to not use AI in a way he doesn't like will not qualify.
I think he's in the "bargaining" stage of dealing with loss right now.
You have a practical obligation to obey existing power structures. That’s what makes it a power structure. What do you all think is happening here? There have been people who decided what math gets published for centuries.
> In other news, evangelical christians ask scientists to stop publishing about evolution.
not sure it's comparable, but the issue is that for a lot of those mathematical results, they don't really have utility by themselves. The utility is the new branches/understanding that's being developped.