> This is unless, of course, you enjoy puzzles and hard work with little application.

Wouldn't that be great? If we could teach our kids that learning for the sake of learning is awesome? If only that was all this world was.

But you're right, you and the thousands of others posting, it's not. You have that voice, and the hundreds of online stories about college losing value have that political voice.

In the post-AI future I can imagine recreational mathematics being a socially approved past time. It helps with age-related cognitive decline, etc.

But I can also understand people in that post-AI future who had smart political ideas that were more important to them than smart math ideas.

Impactful ideas.

Just getting snapshots and puzzling out that post-AI future I don't know if we'll have the right space to encourage positive care for our mental and physical landscapes.