In the savanna it’s not about who outruns the lion but who outruns their peers escaping the lion.

Frontier labs need these headlines not for human progress but as beauty pageant for investors and government agencies. If they don’t do maths they’ll just go after other fields.

So Terrance Tao here might be able to hold them off math but he won’t stop them from speedrunning STEM with similar consequences.

We may be locking people out of these fields instead delegating everything to machines, and I don’t think the machines are good enough to assume that responsibility.