> Where does the value of thinking and having deep ideas come from? We need to think about this now. If it comes primarily from their scarcity – the fact that having certain ideas is hard – then indeed this value may drop precipitously when the manufacture of ideas can be automated. But if the value comes from the utility of the ideas – the benefit that the idea brings – then the story changes: perhaps creating more good ideas is actually better, not worse. Here I’m using “utility” in a broad sense, not just in the sense of what people often call applied mathematics.
> In other words, mathematicians may need to adjust to a transformation from a scarcity economy to an abundance economy.
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