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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by magicalist on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:48PM (#50146291)
> Similarly, Tao being ‘on the warpath’

Do you think that this is a quote from the article you just read?

I swear half the comments here are just from people reading dunks on r/singularity and x and getting real mad at strawmen.

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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by fooker on Sunday October 18, 2026 @07:22PM (#50146521)
“I’m on a war footing,” he said while grabbing coffee during a two-day math workshop at the University of California, Los Angeles, that was rife with talk about the existential crisis that artificial intelligence has created in his field.
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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by magicalist on Sunday October 18, 2026 @09:36PM (#50147365)
> “I’m on a war footing,” he said

So not remotely the same thing.

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