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The real truth is that brainy people need a way to blow off that brainy steam, and it kinda doesn't matter if it's designing a novel WMD or playing a board-game
by javajosh 5y ago
The real truth is that brainy people need a way to blow off that brainy steam, and it kinda doesn't matter if it's designing a novel WMD or playing a board-game.
I'd argue on that basis that stimulating board-games can save the world.
- kevinventullo 5y agoI occasionally ponder whether this is the purpose of funding pure mathematics.
- jimbokun 5y agoAnother reason is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...