nonsensical_

That’s table stakes!

You will consume slop on HN and you will be happy.

Mostly that he really should have seen this coming. These people absolutely do not care what happens to mathematics (or any other field). They compulsively lie and steal and they played Tao and others like a fiddle. He danced to their tune and now that the music has stopped, now do they complain.

He was the poster boy of the mathematician yielding these tools for his own benefit. But he forgot who the owners are.

Too little too late.

Both Amodei and sama are weeping at this news. The horror. The horror.

I’m trying to determine now if Terence Tao was a plant or a useful idiot. Maybe both.

Where men are men and 14-year old girls are FBI agents.

I prefer lobste.rs for this.

Even back then it seemed like a tempest in a teapot situation on HN. People thought they were raw and edgy saying “fuck Trump” like it amounts to anything. I remember at least one, maybe two YC-backed companies dedicated to removing Trump. That’s right - a startup business plan that amounts to impeaching a president. Now there’s a billion+ dollar enterprise.

All this, and here we are in 2026. It just shows immaturity and naïveté.

You’ll have to enlighten how GG plays into all this. Sounds like a curious tie-in.

This persons understanding of “life out there” seems to be heavily painted by pop culture.

That’s a pretty based take. Where do I subscribe to your newsletter?

Hmm. Feminism as a CIA psyop. They’ve done more audacious things, I suppose.