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The point of transportation is to get from point A to point B, so almost nobody will care whether that's done via automation.

The point of e.g. art isn't just to produce a finished piece, so people may care about more than the end result, making AI replacement of human artists more contentious.

Tao is arguing that the point of math is also not just to produce solutions to problems.

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If that is the case, if the pursuit of math is not instrumental, then there is no issue with ai.

You can take a leisurely drive on your Mc even when self driving taxis can take you from a to b.

It must necessarily reduce to a fear of reduced funding to math fields.

Which is congruent to the taxi analogy.

>The point of transportation is to get from point A to point B so almost nobody will care whether that's done via automation.

Would you say the job of a musician is to just produce sound? and the job of a surgeon just to cut and suture??? Well then the job of a mathematician is also just to provide proofs. You completely misunderstood the above comment and Tao's argument.

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