I think this goes in the right direction. You have to rethink the role of human work in math, can't put your head in the sand and cling to your comfy institutio

I think this goes in the right direction. You have to rethink the role of human work in math, can't put your head in the sand and cling to your comfy institutions and system just because you got to know it's ins and outs and just want it to be like that forever. But the bigger picture is: while I understand the author know his field best and wants to keep the post focused, the same issue will hit many more fields. We need to also have a broader discussion that involves more fields of knowledge work, largely academic scholarship but also regular office work, then it will come to engineering design, medicine, it's already coming for 3d modeling and vfx, software dev, it will come for a lot of middleman services. Not at the same rate, but we have to understand that it's not just that math will change. Change will be the default. Everything will change. It will be much easier to make math change because all things will change. You shouldn't worry and imagine that funding criteria will be like today or that journals or academia or politicians expectations will be like today. No, everything will adjust with some timing differences of course but it won't be a static world and then math changing and having to justify and fight to explain the change to other actors who are baffled. They won't be baffled they will themselves have to change. The world will transform as much as it did when society moved from feudal agrarian to urban capitalist industrial, or from the vast majority doing physical labor to a service economy with a huge amount of desk jobs. I can't tell how it will change exactly but it will be bigger than what we have seen in the last couple of generations or maybe more.