> The community made its deal with the devil (Jim Simons) long ago
replyI don’t understand, can you explain this line?
Throughout the history, we had made some of the best mathematicians abandon math. In turn, they apply their math skills somewhere else (hedge fund), and the companies they founded absorbed all the people from academia.
replyThis has happened numerous times in the past, and it will happen over and over again.
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replyIt's inherently political for so many reasons including the fight for taking action that apparently has no meaning. This very debate in other words. So I disagree. It's like philosophy (or opera) and there's nothing wrong with that.
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