Comments by "nozrep" (@nozrep) on "Mathematician on Eric Weinstein drama at Harvard | Edward Frenkel and Lex Fridman" video.
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i like math. have a degree in finance. In the “culture” maybe not considered as good as an accounting degree. lol.. Seems like some forget though, that, accounting and finance are in fact also categories of maths, applied maths, applying to business and economy and monetary exchange…. I give you money to make a cookie? Finance. Math. I buy a car? Finance. Math. Personal economics. Most individuals do much, much math each day. All day. Even the ones who think they are terrible at math. It is good, in my opinion, to recognize that simply counting the seconds and the dollars is math, just as much as calculating the distance between vast galaxies, is also math! Yes levels of complexity. Yes yes yes yes. But let us not cowtow to the “elitists” who tell us we are dumber just because we cannot do calculus, or physics equations,
but are massively able to count our rice and beans for to eat, each day.
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@Guapo10292 and maybe you will not believe me either when I say I am not trying to make myself feel smarter. I’m in my thirties dude, believe me, or don’t, cool; I’ve realized how much less intelligent I am than I once assumed I was. Nevertheless it has also always been stupid and wrong for “those types” to belittle and propagandize against those of us who count things all day everyday, which, is math, and choosing to not learn physics is just a choice and does not actually mean one may be lesser smarter than you, or them.😅 But alas, it does indeed seem that many folks who count stuff and measure and calculate stuff to build stuff all day every day have unfortunately given into the propaganda that they are somehow of lesser intelligence than the theoretical galactical quantumologist, when such folk cannot measure a board for to cut, for to saw, for to build the house whence they reside.
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