In other words, I lack the discernment to evaluate the output of the chatbot that Tao exchanged theories with. If you showed me an equally opaque transcript of a "conversation" between a chatbot and a crank with AI psychosis whose math made no sense whatsoever, I couldn't make an *a priori* judgment about which one was a solid piece of mathematical theorizing and which one was a math-inflected word-salad.
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