What amazes me most about mathematics is that it’s a library of code and data structures that is (in its current form) under active development for hundreds of years, uses a single global namespace, no actual package management and no versioning.
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Replying to @Plinz
It’s because hiding it, even for a minority, is disadvantageous to the group. Anyone could make a connection you or your subset could not make alone. So everyone has to have the chance. Anything else is wasting time.
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Replying to @bloodyquantum
I think that everyone has the chance. But to make a dent in a problem that has kept some of the sharpest minds of the past five generations awake at night will usually require many years of full attention. Such attention is so rare that it has a medical name.
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Replying to @Plinz @bloodyquantum
The value of pursuing deep mathematical insights is extremely marginal when compared to spending the same amount of time on your social, economic or romantic affairs. The idea that everyone should be motivated by their teachers to do more math is probably harmful.
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Mathematics works well as an academic subculture because it is basically monastic. As soon as an academic field gets you power or high income, it becomes corrupted by people seeking power and income, ie sociopaths and normies.
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