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🚨 This week was the most insane week in tech history and most people missed half of it.. > the Pentagon adopted Palantir as the CORE US military AI system.. the government just picked its AI.. and it's the one that builds surveillance software.. > Peter Thiel's Founders Fund put $2 billion on a cow collar startup.. GPS collars for cows.. they call their algorithm a "cowgorithm".. two billion dollars.. > OpenAI announced they're doubling their workforce to 8,000.. the company that told everyone AI replaces jobs is hiring 3,500 more people to build the thing that replaces jobs.. > HSBC announced 20,000 job cuts.. 10% of their entire workforce.. because AI made them unnecessary.. > Jensen closed Nvidia GTC with singing robots and a digital clone of himself.. then said the chip market will hit $1 trillion.. > Bernie Sanders sat down with Claude AI on camera.. asked it about mass data collection.. and the AI snitched on its own industry to a US Senator.. > Elon launched Terafab.. a $25 billion chip factory.. then said money won't exist in the future and you'll be able to take free trips to Saturn.. > the Big Five are spending 94% of their operating cash flow on AI infrastructure.. Amazon is projected to go $28 billion negative.. Alphabet's free cash flow is expected to collapse 90%.. they're borrowing money to keep the data center lights on.. > Reddit CEO said they're considering Face ID to prove you're human.. because they can't tell who's real anymore.. > a guy from North Carolina used AI to make hundreds of thousands of fake songs.. botted billions of streams.. and walked away with $8 million.. first-ever criminal AI streaming fraud case.. > Tim Cook told people to stop doomscrolling.. the CEO of the company that designed the most addictive screen ever made.. all of this happened in ONE week.. if you're not following me you're finding out about this a week late from someone who read my post..

Terence Tao has won every award mathematics can give a human being. Fields Medal. Breakthrough Prize. MacArthur Genius Grant. He is widely regarded as the greatest living mathematician. Not one of. The greatest. He just said something that should terrify every university on Earth. Tao: “We live in a particularly unpredictable era. I think things that we’ve taken for granted for centuries may not hold anymore.” Not years. Not decades. Centuries. The assumptions governing who gets to contribute to knowledge have been in place longer than most nations have existed. Tao just told you those assumptions are dissolving. Tao: “The way we do everything, not just mathematics, will change.” This is not a man who deals in hyperbole. He builds arguments the way he builds proofs. Piece by piece. Nothing unverified. When he says everything, he means everything. Tao: “In math, you previously had to basically go through years and years of education, be a math PhD before you could contribute to the frontier of math research.” That was the contract. You give a decade of your life to an institution. You grind through coursework, committees, dissertation reviews, postdoc rotations. Then maybe you get to touch the boundary of what’s known. The entire system was built on that bottleneck. Time was the gate. Credentials were the key. Tao: “Now it’s quite possible at the high school level that you could get involved in a math project and actually make a real contribution because of all these AI tools.” A high schooler. Contributing to frontier mathematics. The same frontier that used to require a decade of institutional obedience to even approach. He said this about math. He already told you this applies to everything. AI didn’t just speed up the path. It removed the path entirely. The university sold you a ten-year toll road. AI just paved around it overnight. The toll booth operators haven’t realized yet that no one’s coming. Tao: “In many ways, I would prefer the much more boring, quiet era where things are much the same as they were ten years ago, 20 years ago.” This is the line that should haunt you. The smartest mathematician on the planet would rather this wasn’t happening. He is not selling this. He is not positioning himself for a funding round. The acceleration is so violent that even the mind best equipped to process it would prefer it stopped. If Tao is uncomfortable, you should be paying very close attention to your own assumptions about what’s coming. Tao: “The things that you study, some of them may become obsolete or revolutionized, but some things will be retained.” That word “some” is doing enormous work in that sentence. It means the rest won’t be. Entire fields that people spent their careers building will collapse. Not slowly. Not politely. And Tao is telling you he can’t predict which ones survive. Tao: “You should be open to very, very different ways of doing science, some of which don’t exist yet.” Most people will scroll past this. It’s the most important line in the entire clip. He’s not saying learn new tools. He’s not saying adapt your workflow. He’s saying the methods themselves haven’t been invented yet. The frameworks don’t exist. You cannot prepare for what hasn’t been created. You can only build the kind of mind that doesn’t break when the ground shifts beneath it. Tao: “It’s a scary time, but also very exciting.” He said scary first. Every tech founder says exciting first and mentions risk as a footnote. Tao reversed it. When the most brilliant mind of a generation leads with fear and follows with possibility, that is not optimism. That is a man telling you the truth about what’s coming while still choosing to walk toward it. The people who survive the next decade won’t be the ones with the best credentials. They’ll be the ones who stopped mourning the world that was and started building for the one that doesn’t exist yet.

I had dinner once with a top physicist and a top computer scientist and asked what they thought the probability was that we were in a simulation. They answered simultaneously at 0% and 100% respectively. It was like a double-slit experiment, but with humans.