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Comment by satvikpendem

2 months ago

Don't conflate the joy of doing math with the benefits of knowing new mathematics.

The two cannot be separated.

  • Sure they can, as with each successive generation one learns the past works and then works to build on them. This genie just makes the past works be instantly created. In other words, I'm sure some mathematicians like to derive everything entirely from scratch but that's not most of them.