An xkcd-style purity hierarchy joke turns math envy into an AI-era meme
tokenbender · x · 2026-08-04
A post riffs on Moravec-style nerd hierarchy with an xkcd comic that ranks fields by “purity,” poking fun at how people treat math as the most elevated discipline and everything else as merely applied versions of it.
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