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lancebeet • today at 6:34 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

That doesn't make sense to me. Terence Tao is great at explaining things, but he could spend months explaining some of his proofs to me without me understanding it. Even if the AI had a superhuman ability to explain things it's no guarantee that it could make a human understand.


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vasco • today at 6:46 AM

It couldn't make every human understand. But it could make Tao and other mathematicians understand. You're not going to become knowledgeable at everything suddenly, even though I doubt what you say. Many months of 1-1 tutoring and hard work from a student with a top mathematician would make you understand a lot. Just not sit down and read it first day.