The point of e.g. art isn't just to produce a finished piece, so people may care about more than the end result, making AI replacement of human artists more contentious.
Tao is arguing that the point of math is also not just to produce solutions to problems.
You can take a leisurely drive on your Mc even when self driving taxis can take you from a to b.
It must necessarily reduce to a fear of reduced funding to math fields.
Which is congruent to the taxi analogy.
Would you say the job of a musician is to just produce sound? and the job of a surgeon just to cut and suture??? Well then the job of a mathematician is also just to provide proofs. You completely misunderstood the above comment and Tao's argument.
And here I thought this was the whole point…
We will definitely see a large group of people needing therapy, but suggesting that it is worse than people loosing what little they have is poposterous.
How do you know? because their complaints didn't make it to HN front page? Imagine being a taxi driver and a father of 2 and thinking that any day could be the last day at your work.