Terrence Tao does not understand cancer medicine(drvinayprasad.com)
17 points by elo2000 | 7 comments
Vinay Prasad's Substack post arguing that Terence Tao misused a cancer drug analogy when discussing AI solving math problems without explaining mechanisms.




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