Why should we believe that Tao would be especially likely to be able to make progress on AGI alignment (e.g. compared to other recent fields medal winners like Peter Scholze)?
Well, his name is alliterative, so there’s that.
(I’m being glib here, but I agree that there’s a much broader class of people who have a similar level of brilliance to Tao, but less name recognition, who could contribute quite a lot if they were to work on the problem.)
Well, his name is alliterative, so there’s that.
(I’m being glib here, but I agree that there’s a much broader class of people who have a similar level of brilliance to Tao, but less name recognition, who could contribute quite a lot if they were to work on the problem.)