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> So basically ~70 years wasted. to call those years wasted implies that we shouldn't have had to wait for them. it suggests that we should look for a way to b

> So basically ~70 years wasted. to call those years wasted implies that we shouldn't have had to wait for them. it suggests that we should look for a way to bypass them.

ianai 8y ago
I’d rephrase it as: we would probably do ourselves good by coming up with better mathematical intuition and tools of understanding math.
gumby 8y ago
They were wasted if people toiled fruitlessly on the problem. Not necessarily wasted if they were making progress on other problems.