Re:“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more ...
by augment_me on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:50PM
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Because apart from getting ones livelihood from a certain task, people tie their status, purpose, meaning in life to it.
It's much harder and takes more effort to reimagine/reset ones life meaning and place in society compared to adjusting it slightly.
In my childhood, we used to do a tribal dance with fast moving sticks in both hands, and boys weaving in out of circles rapidly - all in a fluid motion. Any wrong movement or lack of right movement would mean serious injuries to some kids. Kids don't that now. That's one of the lost art forms.
Mathematicians shouldn't take it too hard and try to imagine things like Math 2.0. Trust me, there is no such thing. When you have to leave it to machines, you have to, and move on. It's same as people using a calculator for multiplications instead of calculating it by hand. There is no Multiplication-by-Hand 2.0. Why is it so hard to see it?