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I would have expected the math community to celebrate all of this since they got into math for the love for mathematics rather than the love for tenure. Their own world will not end - more mathematics will require more mathematicians to make sense of it all. And if all of it leads to some form of superabundance they are looking at the best possible future: they’ll be able to do math forever without having to worry to get paid for it.

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> they got into math for the love for mathematics rather than the love for tenure

They got into math for the love for mathematics but if they couldn't make a living from it (tenure) then they would have done something else just like everybody else who is not a starving artist. So, no, they won't celebrate it and neither would you if you were honest. (note also that starving has a short time limit before you die so "if all of it leads to some form of superabundance" won't work in that circumstance)

> Their own world will not end - more mathematics will require more mathematicians to make sense of it all.

Someone tell the administration to restart funding mathematicians then [1] -- because the exact opposite of "more mathematicians" is happening right now, both at the post/graduate level [2], as well as the undergraduate level (for much longer) [3].

[1] https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7694

[2] https://www.ams.org/learning-careers/data/impact-report

[3] https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202310/noti2806/noti280...

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