I somehow feel like this is written by Terence Tao, based on the quality, style, and length that are similar to what's on his blog. Anyone else shares the feeling or has a different guess?

Edit: In a later part, the answer says "Terence Tao is very eloquent about this here: ..." so likely not (based on factors like typical personality of a mathematician, but I could be wrong since I don't know him personally).