That was long-winded, but I appreciate that it seems to have actually been written by a human being.

  For every landmark theory, theorem, or conjecture, there have been incremental, partial results supporting intuition and inching towards the white whale. When I attended BARD, a small computational number theory conference, one of the organizers preached of the outsized impact we could have just by being willing to program the numerical experiments that other mathematicians only theorized about. The small ball player can completely change the approach and intuition of the leading names without ever joining their ranks. The mediocre mathematician has always had purpose.

Yes, yes, YES! F*cking yes.

The greatest challenge of the AI Age (which is also the Climate Change Age and the Demographic Trap Age and a lot of other ages) is going to be finding an appreciation of the mediocre and mundane, when so many things are going very right, and so many things are going very wrong. Most of the time, the top of the bell and an SD in either direction can overwhelm either end, for better or worse. So respect for the unremarkable is warranted, if you want good things to happen and bad things not to.