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▲ adastra22 3 hours ago

No, I don’t care. Until there is a real, practical result, I don’t care. There are plenty of examples of math discovered in service of solving a problem. There is nothing that says math has to be purely abstract first.

▲cpa 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because clearly we’d have invented GPS if we had asked ourselves “how do I create a global positioning system with centimeter accuracy”?

▲adastra22 an hour ago | parent [-]

That is how we invented GPS...

▲cpa 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

And without relativity theory positioning error would be measured in kilometers.

▲robotpepi 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

doesn't it use special relativity or some modern physics?

▲mrheosuper 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And that's fine, caring about everything is exhausting, someone has to solve real world problem. But dismissing a result since it's not practical is not fine

▲asdff 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can't imagine how that severely limits the potential size of the discovery space shackling it to present day problems?

▲doug_durham 24 minutes ago | parent [-]

I think the poster is distinguishing between currently practical and ever practical. Galactic algorithms can never be realized.

▲satvikpendem 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ironic username as I doubt we'd get to the stars with your philosophy.

▲calf 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

How far are you willing to go? In your radical pragmatism, are you an intuitionist, or even a finitist? Oh wait, these are pure math topics that you do not care a about!