Comment by John Schulman (john-schulman-1) on Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions · 2021-11-12T08:28:30.692Z · LW · GW

Tao is also great at building mathematical models of messy phenomena--here's an article where he does a beautiful analysis of sailing: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/sailing-into-the-wind-or-faster-than-the-wind

I'd be surprised if he didn't have some good insights about AI and alignment after thinking about it for a while.