Comment by kurthr

1 day ago

This goes in a necessary direction, from my personal take away of Gower's recent post on the subject.

Mathematics is suffering from Goodhart's Law:

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

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lacedeconstruct  1 day ago

Doing something difficult was a signal that you:

a- understood it and all the background information it requires

b- internalized techniques and methods that are helpful in problem solving in general

Now it just means nothing

  • Razengan  1 day ago

    > Now it just means nothing

    Now it means we can move on to other difficult shit.

    • js8  8 hours ago

      Today, the difficult shit is how to get the resources from the people who use them to turn difficult shit into an easy shit. Basically, a war. I am not sure I want people to move on to that.

    • lacedeconstruct  1 day ago

      There is a finite capacity/time for a human mind to do difficult shit, if it can be slop forked in a microsecond before you even get to flesh it out there is no point

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bonoboTP  21 hours ago

Some were like this, some weren't. Many people were in it because it's objective and factual and not up for the whims of taste of some established gatekeeper. They weren't in it for art performance reasons or to please the aesthetic judgment of some entrenched mathematician-baron.