Re:What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses | 3Blue1Brown [video]
by mitthrowaway2 on Monday May 20, 2024 @05:14PM
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I agree. You can still make a great living just by sifting through the nuggets unearthed by people like Gauss, Euler, and Laplace, which continue to pay dividends centuries later, let alone inventing new math.
Re:What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses | 3Blue1Brown [video]
by chii on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @07:18AM
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also, creating value is different from capturing value.
You can create value but not capture it (or don't have the ability to capture it). But somebody tends to capture the value, and if it's not you, it's probably going to be your boss (or their boss, etc).
I do believe that the results of math research (even the pure one) create an insane value for other people, but that we live in a world full of ignorant people who don't see this insane value (yet). Thus, the modern math research may not be motivated by this criterion, but in most cases nearly tautologically creates a lot of value for other people.