The Chopping Block(@_choppingblock):@tarunchitra on what an AI Millennium Prize does to academia. Haseeb: "How do you feel as a math Twitter person seeing all this drama break out?" Tarun: "Everyone I know in academia is very depressed. Because it's like everyone's career hierarchy was determined on trying to solve these problems. But now it's kind of like actually just have more compute." "My guess is math will turn into a place like a lot of humanities where there's a very small number of tenured professors. 90% of people are just teaching calculus to pre-med morons." "It's not going away. I think it's just going to be like the bar goes up so much." "It's going to be like being a monk."

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@tarunchitra on what an AI Millennium Prize does to academia. Haseeb: "How do you feel as a math Twitter person seeing all this drama break out?" Tarun: "Everyone I know in academia is very depressed. Because it's like everyone's career hierarchy was determined on trying to solve these problems. But now it's kind of like actually just have more compute." "My guess is math will turn into a place like a lot of humanities where there's a very small number of tenured professors. 90% of people are just teaching calculus to pre-med morons." "It's not going away. I think it's just going to be like the bar goes up so much." "It's going to be like being a monk."