WORLD'S TOP MATHEMATICIAN SAYS AI MAY BE MAKING US TOO EFFICIENT terence tao talks about how he used to go to the library for one paper and randomly find another one sitting next to it now u type exactly what u need into search or ai and get it in seconds his take: "you actually do need a certain level of distraction in your life." and i think this goes way beyond math we keep treating everything between the question and the answer like wasted time, but sometimes thats literally where the learning happened u looked for one thing, read something u didnt need, got confused, went somewhere else and came back knowing more than u originally asked for ai removing all that friction is insanely useful, i use it every day. i just dont think every second we remove from the process was useless sometimes getting the answer slower was part of what made the answer yours