Facts every mathematician should know before they leave society and move to a cabin in the woods
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Facts every painter should know before they.. well, perhaps I shouldn't invoke Godwin's law.
...give up on their dreams of supporting themselves with art that matters to them and take a coding bootcamp.
(The part where they let go of the "support oneself with art that matters" part is of course the "code for money" bit, since code is art as well)
These past few years I’ve been thinking more and more that he might’ve had the right idea. Not referring to the bombs of course.
It's not even just Kaczynski. Grothendieck, Perelman became recluses too.
Brouwer and Gödel … many of them. But each so differently, and sometimes you feel how their mental disrepair would be related either to the content of their work, or to this work’s status in the mathematical community
I also think that with age, the passion for some ideas become second to other emotions.
He was right basically. I think he just absolutely targeted the wrong individuals - Chris Dorner was right as well, but went a little too far by targeting family members.
Guerilla warfare is pretty effective, just look at the CIA's ability to reshape the geopolitical landscape!
Let's have a planet wide G.W. to fight pollution.
As climate problems increase and we fail to resolve them I wouldn't be surprised to see terrorist acts in the name of environmentalism.
Probably about to happen already. Lots of people are depressed and want to act.