Adam Marblestone: evaluation

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…Yeah. How much of the value of this sort of pure mathematics just comes from actually just coming up with entirely new ways of thinking about a problem, mapping it to a totally different representation? Do we have examples? I don’t know. I think of it maybe a little bit like when everybody had to write assembly code or something like that. The amount of fun cool startups that got created was just a lot less or something. Fewer people could do it, progress was more grinding and slow and lonely and so on. You had more false failures because you didn’t get something about the assembly code, rather than the essential thing of was your concept right. Harder to collaborate and stuff like that. And so I think it will be really good. There is some worry that by not learning to do the mechanical parts of the proofs that you fail to generate the intuitions that inform the more conceptual parts, the creative part. It’s the same with assembly.…

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