Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era

Human pursuits cannot be separated from the humans who pursuit it. In the pursuit of knowledge, what ultimately drives people is what they themselves can understand, and the meaning these understanding provides, both based on their own experience and people whose opinions they value. Humans do not pursuit Platonic…

Following Terry Tao's blog he seems to be engaging in forced self-directed cognitive behaviorial therapy, he is trying to come to terms with loss while developing a new framework for himself and other as to where the value is. It is cool to see. It is better to engage than to be in denial and just fall into…

The lens to use is the Venn diagram of: 1. What you like doing 2. What you are good at doing 3. What people will pay you to do For math, if your goal is to prove something that no one else has proven, then all three are under attack. I think the "egoless" path is taking a 50,000-foot view of mathematics that ignores…