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Tao says he learned something from the machine

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Terry Tao said he can honestly say he learned something from Aristotle after it contributed to another Erdős solution, while Dario Amodei predicted AI will soon be central to discoveries on the scale of CRISPR.

Reporting date: 2026-01-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The relationship inverts: the mathematician is now the student.

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Welcome to January 13, 2026

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Erdős #397 falls, the third this week

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Tao says he learned something from the machine
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Reporting date: 2026-01-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-13-tao-learned-from-aristotle
Claim: Terry Tao said he can honestly say he learned something from Aristotle after it contributed to another Erdős solution, while Dario Amodei predicted AI will soon be central to discoveries on the scale of CRISPR.
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- Welcome to January 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-13-2026
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