What Terence Tao thinks about metascience

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1. 20 Mar 2026

   Our readingWhether a scientific idea was progress depends on a future and a culture that have not happened yet, so grading it may never be something you can reinforcement-learn.

   Their wordsSo, you you can't look at any given scientific achievement purely in isolation and give it an objective grade without being aware of the context both in the the past and the future. And so it it it may never be something that you can just reinforcement learn the same way that that you can for much sort of more localized problems.

   ↗Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIyoutube.com 3rd of 24 in this recording