i spent a little time thinking about math again because of the lovecraft thread and made a little progress articulating my criticism of what i saw in my time in grad school. basically i think pure math has become almost entirely highly technical bullshit
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academia does weird things to good fields (math, philosophy) bc nearly the only gradient is status and being popular
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i did happen to go to a school (UC Berkeley) that was maybe unusually into chasing "hot" or "trendy" research topics compared to other schools, i do wonder how different my experience would've been somewhere else 🧐