Slava Akhmechet(@spakhm):No opinion on math PhD but I’d still strongly recommend math major. Most of us never reason. A situation arises, we act intuitively, then get RL’ed. At best we get anxious and bounce between limited hazy alternatives. But to prove a theorem you have to reason. You don’t know what precision or thinking really is until you have to sit and struggle to prove a theorem that’s new to you. The crazier the world gets, the more this skill is useful. And the world is about to get very very crazy.

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Slava Akhmechet@spakhm

2026.08.03 18:27

No opinion on math PhD but I’d still strongly recommend math major. Most of us never reason. A situation arises, we act intuitively, then get RL’ed. At best we get anxious and bounce between limited hazy alternatives. But to prove a theorem you have to reason. You don’t know what precision or thinking really is until you have to sit and struggle to prove a theorem that’s new to you. The crazier the world gets, the more this skill is useful. And the world is about to get very very crazy.

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