mathematicians mostly don't work on anything remotely useful and they rely on nobody else understanding what they do to keep this up; schools tolerate this b/c prestige + somebody needs to teach and TA calculushttps://twitter.com/mykola/status/1198719315589160960 …
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a bigshot professor at berkeley once tried to dunk on ML by saying that it basically only relied on 18th century math; imo this is a much bigger dunk on math
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the other standard counterargument "but muh beauty of math!" - look. we are already drowning in beautiful math. we have a disgustingly beautiful hoard of it already, more than we could ever need. i'm talking full RPG inventory of megalixirs and all that other shit you never use
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actually it's more like an RPG with a crafting system where you can craft really powerful weapons and armor that you don't yet have the stats to equip, and instead of leveling or figuring out what you really need to craft you just keep crafting more and more powerful stuff
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i wish i hadn’t used this word because people are reading it as much more boringly utilitarian than i intended, writing a follow-up thread
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I respectfully disagree. I believe one of the smartest subset of people on earth should have the freedom to decide what to study. The other option is to follow median intelligence of human kind. Which is the main shaper of our political and financial system. ++
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That is why we need academic freedom.
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yes, somewhat, and I'm pretty sure you are right on the margin, but still: the historical precedents justify a lot of opportunity cost
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Good. The more useless, the better. Unironically.
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Logicians working on “useless” math in the principia mathematica (a project abandoned) ended up giving us Godelian incompleteness and modern computing. Sit down.
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