Hacker News: 31ahg167https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=31ahg167Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:56:15 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by 31ahg167 in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"]]>This was also guest-posted on Tao's blog. Tao has a flood of guest posts that cope in a varying degree. Most start with empathy, move on to inevitability and emphasize human understanding.

Few of them mention research theft, none of them mentions concentration of capital and resources.

The fact that Gowers quotes Tsimerman (OpenAI employee) says it all. A couple of mathematicians are determined to bulldoze forward with AI, and I suspect Tao will also continue after the meek concern letter and the cleverly worded guest posts that are subliminal ads for AI.

]]>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:43:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4974409331ahg167https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744093https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744093<![CDATA[New comment by 31ahg167 in "Victory Appeals Court Rejects Expansive New Copyright Claim"]]>Because the EFF is no longer the organization that may have represented your values in 2000. Foundations go evil, co-opted and bought out.

The entire article is a pro-AI shill piece from start to finish. The EFF now sells out open source.

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