Robin Hanson
@robinhanson
Joined July 2007
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This is one of the many ways that the professed goal of intellectual progress comes apart from the more heart-felt goal of max personal prestige.
I see why Tao is so sad.
The era of Einstein and Feynman is over for math.
It’s now the era of the 1,000 person Higgs boson team.
Every mathematician now drifts towards engineering.
