clearly there are casual ways to engage with STEM and the arts, like literally just go on youtube. acting like learning a theorem for fun is absurd is exactly why we are having this debate. i love learning about the humanities, but clearly we cant say the same about you with STEM
This debate is stupid. What does a humanities person “engaging with STEM” even look like? Should they learn theorems for fun? Genetically modify a firefly after work?
@postdocforever You actually don’t know what areas of mathematics will become useful in the future. If you are indeed a physicist, you should already know that.
*some* mathematicians: testing what AI is capable of doing in math
twitter physicist: mathematicians DONT want to THINK ANYMORE im so MAD because MATHEMATICIANS are SO USELESS
I love how mathematicians are chasing AI proofs as if proving their abstruse conjectures is some urgent need. Dude you work on areas that won't have any use probably ever, if you don't enjoy the thinking process anymore why are you even doing this
i wake up, i cry over spilt milk, put all of my eggs in one basket, bite off more than i can chew, jump the gun, fly off the handle and then die on that hill
it is so psychologically difficult to do math research in the ai era. if you're doing it for any reason other than pure curiosity, you're going to have a really bad time. there's no money in it. all prestige is gone. future career options are bleak. it feels like anything you're currently working on is completely meaningless because it's going to be solved in a couple years by ai anyways. it's a weird feeling. phd to homeless pipeline gonna go crazy