“They’re very controversial for mathematicians,” DeDeo said.
“Most of them don’t like the idea.”
I've always found this attitude very weird. If I was a miner, I'd welcome the arrival of a machine that helps me dig faster.
Even if I was an artist, musician, painter or otherwise working in a "creative" field, I would welcome any kind of tool that helps liberate me from the tedium of material things related to my craft and allow me to reach out further and wider.
I think there's a category of Mathematicians that still believe that their craft is something special, and that the help of machines will somehow taint the "purity" of the work. What a sad and arrogant thing to believe.
I've always found this attitude very weird. If I was a miner, I'd welcome the arrival of a machine that helps me dig faster.
Even if I was an artist, musician, painter or otherwise working in a "creative" field, I would welcome any kind of tool that helps liberate me from the tedium of material things related to my craft and allow me to reach out further and wider.
I think there's a category of Mathematicians that still believe that their craft is something special, and that the help of machines will somehow taint the "purity" of the work. What a sad and arrogant thing to believe.