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throwaway81ag81on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Where did you even read that Tao is unhappy with “open problems being solved”? There was no indication of that in his Bluesky thread.

Why would you go out of your way to make a case of something being not useful when, ironically, so much advancement in human history has come from the discipline?

Your motive is more worrying than your straw man argument.

throwaway81ag81on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

I dislike both AI oligarchs as much as people who do this kind of deflection.

People are not complaining about problems being solved or advancement in technology. They are complaining about terrible people doing terrible things.