To answer your question, instead of maximizing your output, I believe that maximizing everyone else's output is more valuable. It is also harder, otherwise some

To answer your question, instead of maximizing your output, I believe that maximizing everyone else's output is more valuable. It is also harder, otherwise someone else would have already done it. I am very biased to answer that mathematics drives science. Advance the tools and applications follow. [1] Here is a more heuristic take on it by Elon Musk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnBQmEqBCY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnBQmEqBCY0 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283929