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Automating computation caused the loss of some abilities or practices, while enabling forms of mathematical research that were previously impossible.

Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026

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“or a good physical scientist you had to be good at doing that kind of work with pencil and paper or in your head and then that stopped being true and in some ways you know that was a loss of certain things but on on the other hand”
“It allowed for a kind of mathematical research that could not have been done before,”
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