I do agree with you that the problems are for the entire field and that senior portraits with tenure (like Tao and me) well be personally affected only in a minor way.

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I have many criticisms of Tao but a) it is ridiculous to claim that the problems he solved were "not difficult" and b) he is not, in fact, jobless. More to the point, the situation created by AI companies is a problem for the entire field, not just for Tao personally.

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Unfortunately current events are making the media treat Terry Tao even more as the prime spokesman for mathematics.

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This is 100% sarcasm, especially the first sentence.

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this confusion accounting for roughly 25% of conversation time in first year of grad school (generically? almost everywhere? adversarial? according to distribution X? typical? arbitrary? JFC)

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