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Not to over comment on the thread, but this idea of people performing math at festivals could very conceivably happen, and the economics would be precisely same

Not to over comment on the thread, but this idea of people performing math at festivals could very conceivably happen, and the economics would be precisely same. It's just a question of the artform. Hacker conferences get pretty close to punk math, and blockchains are the repetitive noise your parents don't understand. A bit into the handwavy, but there's two famous quotes, one from Goethe about architecture being 'petrified music,' and another about how 'nobody can dance to architecture' which were just as quirky as what I'm saying, but when you view skateboarders as, literally, dancing to architecture, with festivals everywhere around the world, the ideas of music, architecture, math, and what dancing to them all might mean suddenly becomes plausible and conceptually much closer to one another. The economics of skateboarding (as essentially a dance form) are pretty much the same as that of music, and math. It's the dismal aspect of Economics that provides this kind of indifferent nihilism between the concepts, but when you're trying to create a product, the economics are the necessary lens. Though I will admit it's a different frame of mind.

pvarangot 5y ago
Those are good points, but the pervasiveness of music as a means to connect socially is so out of proportion vis à vis hacker conferences that most hacker conference include one or multiple musical events, and sometimes music leading to some of the "big numbers". I think Discovery becomes a viable product when there's so much of something out there, and for math and hacker conferences it's not much of a necessity and no one with benefit from it. For music because of a matter of scale I think Discovery is ripe for innovation and there's viable products that should do well. I wish I had more time or contacts to actually put my money where my mouth is, so unfortunately so far I just have an opinion.

pvarangot 5y ago

Those are good points, but the pervasiveness of music as a means to connect socially is so out of proportion vis à vis hacker conferences that most hacker conference include one or multiple musical events, and sometimes music leading to some of the "big numbers". I think Discovery becomes a viable product when there's so much of something out there, and for math and hacker conferences it's not much of a necessity and no one with benefit from it. For music because of a matter of scale I think Discovery is ripe for innovation and there's viable products that should do well. I wish I had more time or contacts to actually put my money where my mouth is, so unfortunately so far I just have an opinion.