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Faced with a problem none of your techniques fit, try anything, the stupider the better, because the way it fails is the clue.

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Terence Tao 14 Jun 2025

Mathematician at UCLA, Fields Medal 2006

So the next step then is to try anything no matter how stupid and in fact almost the stupider, the better, which technically is almost guaranteed to fail, but the way it fails is going to be instructive.

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↗Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472youtube.com

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