| ▲ | 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”? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | 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? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | 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! | |||||||||||||||||||||||