Wow this is beautiful!! I'm definitely going to check out limerse more when I get a chance. But basically, my philosophy on education is the following: the better AI gets at everything, the more value we'll get from *not* that, meaning from human interactions. I want to help create communities, not push people more and more onto screens that they stare at alone in their rooms. This is especially poignant in the Math Corps. We see kids come in on Day One who are used to coming to school and sitting in the corner alone, doom scrolling on their cell phones. We don't allow cell phones (kids are instructed to put them away in their backpacks on arrival and not take them out until dismissal), and put out a bunch of breakfast and board games. By Day Three, kids are *begging* their parents to get them to camp right when the doors open, so they get a coveted seat at the Monopoly table. The high school TAs become big brother / big sister to the kids; everybody's making eye contact, joking around, hugging their friends in the morning. There's no way I'm adding a screen to that scenario!.. (Again, I'm a tech-loving Luddite!) Conversely, if you already have a great social life, a family, friends, a good job, etc, and you want to learn more math? Get a Math Academy or limerse or whatever else subscription and get calculating!

I’m very opinionated. So it’s nearly impossible for me to hear someone’s arguments and *not* find something I disagree with. (This includes reading things I myself wrote years - or weeks - ago.) And yet the amazing Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown has put out a long, detailed video on the future of mathematics, in which I cannot find a single flaw. I’ll be sending this to every PhD student and postdoc I know, and strongly recommend everyone watch it. youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI… (Of course I tried to say many of the same things in my conversation with Thomas Koberda. But Grant’s version, unsurprisingly, does an infinitely better job at communicating those ideas!)