"Effective Mathematics": make money in finance, spend it all on AI tokens
birchlse · x · 2026-10-16
A viral AI-community joke riffing on effective altruism: "Effective Mathematics" — instead of thinking about math directly, go work in finance, make a bunch of money, and spend it on tokens asking AI to solve unsolved math problems. A wry take on trading capital for compute for scientific breakthroughs.
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