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xqcgrek2 • today at 2:34 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

Man with a cozy and soon to be irrelevant sinecure grasping at straws.

It turns out research math was puzzling solving and we rewarded idiot savants.


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fatcatsbestcats • today at 8:58 PM

In any case, I’m pretty sure Terence Tao will be fine. You, however, I’m not so sure about.

123ha • today at 2:52 PM

/r/singularity is brigading this submission.

yolp5 • today at 3:23 PM

Now we only reward idiots. How sad.

p11p • today at 2:50 PM

Schadenfreude is not a life-affirming feeling my dude. I wish you the best.

331c8c71 • today at 8:44 PM

He always striked as genuinely nice person generously sharing knowledge insights etc and not caring particularly about money and status. The difference with the loudest tech bros who now dominate the field is staggering.

So all you did is just illustrated above.

esafak • today at 3:14 PM

Are you going to say that of every other white collar job, since most are likely to be automated? He was problem solving with Erdos at age eight. What were you doing? What do you do now?