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stymaartoday at 6:56 PM1 replyview on HN

At the individual level any mathematicians can, but the social group of “mathematicians” will not unless drastic social changes are made, because that's not how the system works today. Drastic social changes usually take decades, and funerals, to occur, so the reasonable hypothesis is that it's not going to change fast enough.


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andriy_kovaltoday at 7:01 PM

Tao has enough moat (name, funding) to make shift happen and even capitalize on this.