Terry Tao

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Terry Tao is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 04, 2022 and September 02, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “I don’t know what kind of advantage Terry Tao (for the sake of argument, IQ 200)”; “This Terry Tao guy -“. It most often appears alongside 2013, Agricultural Revolution, AI.

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• Category: People
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: April 04, 2022
• Last seen: September 02, 2025

Appears In

• Yudkowsky Contra Christiano On AI Takeoff Speeds
• What Is Man, That Thou Art Mindful Of Him?

Related Pages

• • 2013 (1 shared issues)
• • Agricultural Revolution (1 shared issues)
• • AI (1 shared issues)
• • AI alignment theory (1 shared issues)
• • Ajeya (1 shared issues)
• • Alan Turing (1 shared issues)
• • AlphaFold (1 shared issues)
• • AlphaGo (1 shared issues)
• • AlphaGo (1 shared issues)
• • AlphaGo (1 shared issues)
• • Baa Baa B (1 shared issues)
• • Biological Anchors (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• • https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• • https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Yudkowsky Contra Christiano On AI Takeoff Speeds

April 04, 2022 · Original source

An AI that’s twice as intelligence (or ten times as intelligent) as a human can actually make discoveries very quickly. I don’t know what kind of advantage Terry Tao (for the sake of argument, IQ 200) has over some IQ 190 mathematician, but his advantage over an IQ 100 mathematician is complete. In a world where mathematics had only ever been done by IQ 100 people, Tao could advance the art by centuries (of normal progress) in…Years? Days? Some very short amount of time.

What Is Man, That Thou Art Mindful Of Him?

September 02, 2025 · Original source

God: …and the math results we’re seeing are nothing short of incredible. This Terry Tao guy -

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• What Is Man, That Thou Art Mindful Of Him?
• Yudkowsky Contra Christiano On AI Takeoff Speeds