JA WestenbergDec 21
The most successful grift of the modern era was convincing the smartest people in the world that “changing the world” means optimizing the click-through rate on ads for mattresses that ship in a box
Show threadJuan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪
@Daojoan The most gifted mathematicians go work in finance making their masters tons of money in milliseconds. Same as elsewhere; quantitative over qualitative.
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Show threadSimon BrookeDec 21

@dacig @Daojoan It's an enormous waste of rare and critically valuable talent. Still worse, many of those who don't go into finance go into the scammy end of #AI.

Mathematics, at high level, is really hard. Few people can do it. And it is impotant for many of the real problems we need to solve in the world.

But the scammiest parts of the economy can pay the most.