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> The lean proof of the exponential time hypotheses

The what now? I don't know what that is. Can AI help me put food on the table and pay my bills? That thing I can understand.

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Did the centuries of work of scientists and philophers in chemistry put food on any groups table? Do you think haber bosch would have just dropped out of the sky one day randomly?

I can understand a triangle and how come Pitagora’s work might have been worthwhile, but I cannot even begin to understand what this Navier thing is about. You seem to believe in higher maths putting food on our tables, care to delve more into that?

Also a reminder of how come the post-WW2 USSR was a technocratic-scientist state/society and even so, by the end of its existence it had failed at this basic task of feeding its population.

200 years ago you would have said the same about research into optics or number theory. How would you have known back then what these two lead to?

I...I am out of words now.

If you don't know how and what kinds of math is needed in every tech and science we use, then I have nothing to say. I should have recognized when you said this and stopped interacting further.

The reason USSR failed was because its economic system was as we know in hindsight incorrect...and literally unscientific theories like Lysenkoism foisted by the government. If you wanted to argue the USSR failed due to science and tech, then you would be wrong. You also have to prove the USA didn't succeed due to tech.

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