> Mathematics belongs to all of us. If mathematicians get depressed about it, I don't give a hoot.
They are depressed because what's being destroyed is mathematics, actually.
> Five years of guided computer-aided math could improve billions of lives or solve global warming outright through cheap clean energy.
This is complete BS, math doesn't solve climate change or save life, that's a category error. The purpose of math is to help us build understanding of the mathematical objects and that's it.
Sometimes, after much distillation to the academic world, this understanding is later being leverage by other scientific field, but that's a very rare event when it happens. And it's not how other science progress.
> This is a litmus test for the effective altruists
EA has always been a lie to justify short term individual greed by hypothetical shared future benefits.
They are depressed because what's being destroyed is mathematics, actually.
> Five years of guided computer-aided math could improve billions of lives or solve global warming outright through cheap clean energy.
This is complete BS, math doesn't solve climate change or save life, that's a category error. The purpose of math is to help us build understanding of the mathematical objects and that's it.
Sometimes, after much distillation to the academic world, this understanding is later being leverage by other scientific field, but that's a very rare event when it happens. And it's not how other science progress.
> This is a litmus test for the effective altruists
EA has always been a lie to justify short term individual greed by hypothetical shared future benefits.