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If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

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  1. kurthr · · focus · HN ↗
    This goes in a necessary direction, from my personal take away of Gower's recent post on the subject.

    Mathematics is suffering from Goodhart's Law:

    "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

    1. bonoboTP · · focus · HN ↗
      Some were like this, some weren't. Many people were in it because it's objective and factual and not up for the whims of taste of some established gatekeeper. They weren't in it for art performance reasons or to please the aesthetic judgment of some entrenched mathematician-baron.
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