Mathematicians Are Like Luddites

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Bleh. > Recently they had some declaration (I’m not gonna look it up) about “human mathematics” but economics is against this desire too. If you think about it Economics is basically against humanity, all of it. The economic systems serves money, not people. It's apotheosis will be an economy that produces enormous amounts of something , but purely in the service of producing more, and nothing for useless things like people or their satisfaction. It's about time we stopped confusing that system with a law of nature.

musicale

> giving an even smaller group of this already small group an exalted position. The arc of hyper-automation is something of a collapsing pyramid. First you automate the factory workers, then the factory supervisors, then whatever is left of the company.

bitwize

Every human intellectual endeavor is going to become obsolete. Large swathes of humans may become so.