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people used to do math because they cared about something and wanted to understand it (gambling, the motion of the planets, w/e), and at some point in the 20th century math lost contact with any notion of caring or mattering; most math being done today doesn't matter at all
(i used to be in a math grad program and left partly because of this; main reason i think it's worth talking about is there are lots of really smart people in math and IMO their talents are being almost entirely wasted)
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Ahh interesting, I was aware you were in a math grad program from Quora but not so much the nature of why: thanks for the elaboration
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yeah, i started writing a blog post about this but lost steam, hopefully will get back to it sometime but no promises
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This isn’t convincing to me. Just because we don’t know where the next idea will come from doesn’t mean we have carte blanche to do whatever the hell we want. This isn’t a useful way to address the promise of research. Also not sure QM/GR is a good analogy here.
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How would you distinguish between pointless math and useful math before you know very much math at all? Something like: -are you learning it to try to understand something? -are you at least learning it for fun if nothing else? Or do you have other heuristics?
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