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1 - Alex Kontorovich: Improving math

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Is There a Ten Percent Clause to Mathematicians?

With mathematicians, you can't force them to think about anything were we're so a at least some of us. Wherever that my mind goes, i try not to restrict it. If these are the questions that i become interested in, if nobody else is interested in them, too bad. But presumably where your mind goes is a function of pretty deterministic, like who you're with. And maybe there's another mechanism. Would this like ten per cent clause to what it means to be a mathematician? You know, should we do that? Would that make the world better?...

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