It only dies if we want it to die. There’s nothing stopping humans who actually value the act of gathering and applying knowledge from doing so. We just won’t get there first that way, and there won’t be countless lives and vast sums of money and glorious prestige tied up in it. But it might become like a sport, or poetry, or the kind of person that tries to recreate bronze age tech in his backyard using only tools he made himself. This seems like a meta-ethical or fun-theoretic problem.
The act of doing math the old way, will, in the future, become akin to cultures practicing ancient out-moded traditions. They still exist sure, but not in the same way or scale.
When I say the practice will ‘die’ I mean as a primary mode of action on a large scale. The same way cultural traditions die, so do academic traditions. This is what’s depressing to me and its in the same way as someone who watches their culture die.
It only dies if we want it to die. There’s nothing stopping humans who actually value the act of gathering and applying knowledge from doing so. We just won’t get there first that way, and there won’t be countless lives and vast sums of money and glorious prestige tied up in it. But it might become like a sport, or poetry, or the kind of person that tries to recreate bronze age tech in his backyard using only tools he made himself. This seems like a meta-ethical or fun-theoretic problem.
The act of doing math the old way, will, in the future, become akin to cultures practicing ancient out-moded traditions. They still exist sure, but not in the same way or scale.
When I say the practice will ‘die’ I mean as a primary mode of action on a large scale. The same way cultural traditions die, so do academic traditions. This is what’s depressing to me and its in the same way as someone who watches their culture die.
In that case, fair, I agree.