logoalt Hacker News

omnicognate • today at 3:14 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

> which I am happy to pay with my taxes

I'm not. To the extent my taxes are used for maths research (which is minute as a proportion of them) I want them to be used for the development of human mathematical understanding, culture and education, not trawling through a mountain of slop mechanically generated by a Silicon Valley startup that's about to IPO for trillions in the hope there might be some nuggets of insight hiding in there. If the latter is an activity with some value the startup in question can pay for it.