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."
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."
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
> Now it just means nothing
Now it means we can move on to other difficult shit.
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.
And what would that be?
Have you seen the night sky, outside a city?
Space colonization will never happen.
People like you will always happen.
People who understand the vast gulf of technological advancements (some bordering on fantasy) between what we currently have, and what needs to exist for it to happen?
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
Well then you have time to invent some new difficult shit.
3Blue1Brown: The last IMO problem AI could not solve:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbwv5wHQoj0
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.
Timothy Gower
No. It should have been Gowers' rather than Gower's.
The link is:
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the...