[simianwords]

"Tao has sold out to the AI grifters to prop up the AI hype bubble" is not a take I expected to see.

I think we can all be a bit grounded and understand reality as we see it -- one of the smartest living mathematicians is using an important invention. Not necessary to believe in any conspiracy theory.

[keybored]

We don’t even need to know addition to understand quid pro quo. (edit Okay we may have to understand both plus and minus here. But that’s it.)

[chipdale]

Terry has always been curious & temperedly bullish on LLMs long before OpenAI gave him any money.

Quid pro quo or not, he got paid to say what he's already been saying for the last few years.