Terence Tao is afraid centuries of traditions of open science might be undone But collaboration has disappeared many, many times in the last few centuries One of the recent examples is physics publications during WW2 Whenever there is winner-takes-all competition like in war or capitalism, scientific collaboration disappears Corporate research is also like this. Since 2022, OpenAI and Anthropic have published very few breakthroughs that would otherwise give them a winning edge Compare this to DeepSeek's publications, banger after banger research. They are the exception, but they also did it because they would benefit from publishing, in a vacuum left empty by American companies...