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|content=Student Debt, PATRIOT Act, Diversity & Inclusion Oaths, Rollback of Mandatory Requirement, [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein Suicide]], Andrew Yang primary coverage, 1619 Project, Coordinated Bans by Tech Platforms, University Tuition Hike Explanations, [[Labor Shortages|STEM worker shortages despite wage mechanism]]..
 
<nowiki>#</nowiki>GOLD!
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|content=A weird way to describe [[String Theory]], Neoclassical Economics, Critical Theory, The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, Public Health, Trust &amp; Safety, Mainstream Media, The Fed, [[Peer Review]], [[Great Moderation|The Great Moderation]], Cancel Culture and Political Polling...but ya know what? He’s right. It works!
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|content=Evidence you might be in a Cult::
 
When you stop thinking for yourself and you’ve empowered a select few others in your group to do your thinking for you.
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|content=Many years ago 2002-6, I would give talks about Madoff &amp; Epstein using “Black Arts Capital LLC” as a proxy, with the tag line “We’d tell you what we’re doing, but then...”
 
I guessed BM might be front-running his own business. Boy was I wrong on the specifics.
 
RIP Bernie Madoff.
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|content=“In today’s regulatory environment It’s virtually impossible to violate rules. And this is something the public really doesn’t understand...It’s impossible for a violation to go undetected; certainly not for an extended period of time.” -Former NASDQ Chairman, Bernie Madoff
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|content=This is what [[Universal Institutional Betrayal|institutional betrayal]] looks like when you stare straight in its eyes: relaxed, confident, respectable, smooth, knowledgeable.
 
It’s COVID pronouncements. Or [[String Theory]]. Or [[CPI]] revisions. Or “[[Labor Shortages]]”. Or fast-track trade treaties:
 
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|content=If you would be interested, @michiokaku, in bringing your theories &amp; views on The Portal, I would be happy to host you for several hours.
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|content=Every threat against a head of state is taken seriously. Even the absurd ones. It is cheaper to dot a few “i”s and cross a few “t”s than to not worry about such threats.
 
Obviously.
 
[[UAP]], Gain Of Function, New Physics, MANPADS, loose nukes, etc should be the same.
 
Obviously.
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|content=When our experts now talk openly about all these UFOs they talk about their “technology”.
 
And every time they do, I replace the word “technology” with the word “physics” for the obvious reasons. Because if non-terrestrial craft are here, physics &gt; technology.
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|content=Imagine if these [[UAP]] were actually visitors from beyond the local solar neighborhood. You wouldn’t be focused on their technology first. You’d want to understand how they got here and if they used new physics to do so. Most importantly, you’d want to know about dimension hacking.
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|content=A key issue in [[Theory of Geometric Unity|Geometric Unity]] for me is whether additional temporal &amp; spatial degrees of freedom are accessible or shielded from manipulation. But consider what 6 additional temporal dimensions or the ability to manipulate rulers and protractors fundamentally could yield.
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|content=We are somehow no longer worried about any new physics. We are so sure it won’t suddenly progress in an unexpected way or unlock anything new that we aren’t even paying attention to the field. After [[String Theory]] it all feels ironic.
 
This is potentially a *catastrophic* mistake.
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|content=In a certain sense, that is the main through-line of my politics. Any institution that gaslights an ordinary human trying to make sense of the world in a reasonable fashion is wrong to me in a particularly profound way.
 
Don’t know how to describe this as a political perspective.
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|content=You can recover a surprising amount  from just one simple statement: UAP, public health, standardized testing, immigration, mortgage backed securities, crypto, inflation methodology, String Theory, Aaron Swartz, Etc.
 
“Institutions do not have the right to gaslight individuals.”
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|content=Discontinuous innovation is always unlikely. But never impossible.
 
We are both skeptics. But this UFO story is weird beyond belief Michael. I can’t think of a single story to fit to these reports I’m hearing about.
 
I welcome your thoughts. As always.
 
Warm regards,
 
Eric
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|content=Dear @michaelshermer,
 
Thanks for this. Very sober. I myself also don’t find the authenticated videos so far released compelling. But I do find your challenge of “no isolated discontinuous innovation” quite interesting!
 
Might I propose a friendly debate among friendly skeptics?
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|content=First of all, I am concerned that the paradigm of being scientifically or technologically “centuries ahead” is all wrong. This came up in a phone call with our buddy @SamHarrisOrg.
 
Q: How many centuries ahead is 1952-3 from 1900? I’d have guessed “many” (not .5) and been wrong. https://t.co/Fb9rWGAHNQ
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|content=Next challenge: doesn’t your line of reasoning prove that “Renaissance Technologies” is either a fraud or a front? Their Medallion Fund is otherwise a long term unbreached secret, discontinuous from any other know investment fund seemingly thousands of years ahead of competitors.
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|content=Now I’ve had the odd question about Renaissance (front not fraud) for just this reason. But either way, it’s either a counter example to your claims on discontinuous innovation if it is merely a fund or a counter-example to your secrecy claims if it is our secret physics program.
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|content=Next: there are really two metrics on innovations.
 
Metric I: How big the incremental jump in difficulty.
 
Metric II: How big the jump in what is unlocked.
 
The great fear is that a small jump measured by 1 leading to an ENORMOUS jump in as measured by II.
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|content=You are, to me, arguing powerfully that certain people can’t exist: Rodney Mullen, Edward Van Halen, Bob Beamon, Dick Fosbury, Hiroji Satoh, Satoshi Nakamoto, etc.
 
They all exhibited the “a little unlocks a lot” paradigm with Zero-Day exploits that were each decisive.
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|content=And that brings us to theoretical physics. Beginning around 1982 , the son of the world’s top employed anti-gravity researcher(?!) of the 1950s turned in what may be the most impressive 15yr output in the history of the subject by my estimation. How can I begin to explain this?
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|content=It’s not physics exactly. But Edward Witten w support from a small number of folks rewrote Quantum Field Theory as geometry. If Einstein geometrized gravity, then Witten geometrized Quantum Field theory (everything else).
 
Now, all that change has so far unlocked exactly nothing.
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|content=But it’s not that nothing happened in physics. While we were pretending that string theory was working, Witten &amp; Co revolutionized our mathematical framework. Think of it as an enormous amount of unrealized gains. Pent up genius &amp; power looking for its 1st application to the 🌎.
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|content=If you gave us E Witten, J Simons, I Singer, CN Yang, M Atiyah, D Quillen &amp; G Segal, in a quiet program in 1975, I could argue that they didn’t need much more. In fact you don’t need all 7 but for the sake of argument I can make the case using this. But Witten is the main engine.
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|content=Now let me show you how I could get discontinuous innovation if I were China or Russia. I don’t know those systems as well so I’ll use the US example.
 
We know most of the top minds. We pretend that there is a lot of subjectivity about this for social reasons but China wouldn’t.
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|content=If I thought like CCP, I’d create a lavish secret theoretical physics program modeled on the Russian Sharashka system. The key would be to get it to look like something else. A boring Tech company or some weird Chinese fund to disguise the reason for the secretive lavish campus.
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|content=[Digression: If the US were smarter, we’d do it by setting up a mythic secret $B hedge fund that employs top differential geometers, theoretical physicists &amp; ML experts by a national lab &amp; an off brand university w/ inexplicably strong geometry &amp; physics. But enough crazy talk..]
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|content=If CCP could today repeat what Witten (&amp; friends) did building off Geometric Quantum Field Thy, the US would have Zero clue what it unlocks. Even by your own incrementalist theory. It might unlock absolutely nothing. Or passage to the stars via additional degrees of freedom. đŸ€·â€â™‚ïž
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|content=One last point. I released such a theory. Could well be wrong.
 
But I can tell you I should have received a call from DOE. Because calls are cheap and relevant trained PhDs are *very* finite. The US should track every geometer, General Relativist, and Particle Theorist working.
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|content=You don’t have to take a position on me or GU. You can ask Wolfram or Lisi or Barbour or Deutsche or anyone outside the system whether such calls are placed. They are not. No one *in* the system believes in wild discontinuous change from *outside* the system. As per your article.
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|content=Which is to say we’re not monitoring. Maybe we think that’s a waste of taxpayer dollars. Maybe we think that a Grisha Perelman of physics is impossible.
 
How much does a phone call cost if a researcher is wrong vs not bothering if they’re right? Price the Type I &amp; II error. Nuts.
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|content=And I think NDT is enforcing a dangerous “Copernican” consensus that we are too insignificant to even monitor or visit, to go along with “We’ve had Nukes for 70 years without losing a city. I wouldn’t worry. What could possibly go wrong.”
 
This is just a human rationality flaw.🙏
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|content=I subscribe to an unpopular position. Consider 3 kinds of 🌎:
 
A) Ones with no life or at least no life within striking distance of the source code (ToE).
 
B) Worlds that are on the verge of gaining the source code but are confined to a terrestrial surface.
 
C) Root level access.
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|content=Now, if you can jack into the cosmos as ‘Root’ it MAY facilitate stuff that’s unimaginable (e.g. dimension hacking) yet only one remaining big upgrade away from being able to fuse nuclei. Which is where we are now.
 
I’d guess all civilizations that are Root care about each other.
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|content=The following is pure speculation (Tutored by experience w/ GU):
 
I think we sent a signal to the cosmos in 1945 and then on Nov. 1, 1952. Fusing Nuclei is what you do JUST before you become root. If this is right, we let the cosmos know “Earth is root adjacent” w/o awareness.
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|content=Is there anyone in the cosmos listening? Perhaps not. But we are all acting as if living on a terrestrial surface with the ability to fuse nuclei is some totally normal thing due to &lt;70 years of good luck. Which is insane.
 
Now what if I’m right in the above and the cosmos cares?
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|content=The idea of a newly space-time-faring unwise civilization with fresh root level access is a nightmare. And no one but no one on earth takes this seriously anymore. After 1952 fundamental physics went on progressing normally for ~20yrs. So after that it’s been~50yrs of stagnation.
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|content=In those ~50yrs we learned to stop worrying. About Fusion-weapons, interstellar travel, a cosmos that listens or even our ability to progress to the end. In 1984, physicists were talking about the end of physics without irony. They then failed, while failing to report failure.
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|content=So they told another story: “String theory didn’t fail!! It may take 100s of years to figure it out!” That is “If we String Theorists can’t make progress, a Theory of Everything is now far over the Horizon for everyone else.” But that’s not logically necessary. I say we’re close.
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|content=It makes sense to worry about *every* small boutique  program: Lisi, Wolfram, Barbour, LQG, Tegmark, ConnesLott, Octonions, amplitudhedron, etc. Our science/defense establishment doesn’t seem to get this idea: after 50yrs of no progress it seems too abstract to practical men.
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|content=I learned from my buddy @SamHarrisOrg that he thought đŸ‘œ would be Millenia ahead of us.
Look at Nov 1, 1952 from Nov 1 1902: you don’t have powered flight, know what relativity or the quantum is, know that neutrons exist, know about anti-matter, etc.
 
From ‘02, ‘52 IS millennia. https://t.co/YiRc1AbkcU
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|content=Well, we may or may not have a major update in our future. And if it unlocks dimension hacking, looking glass matter, VEV/potential hacking, multi-temporal pseudo-Riemannian metrics, Dark Chemisty, Dark Light, additional families, RaritaSchwinger fields, etc then we get upgraded.
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|content=And I believe all at once.
 
What does that mean? I honestly don’t know.
 
But Imagine you sent a chainsaw, a Bugatti, Ibogaine, “My-1st-Crisper”, and an F-18 to a badly behaved 5yr old child for a birthday present w a simple card: “Enjoy!” We’d worry specifically b/c immaturity.
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|content=That’s what NDT has most wrong. He thinks we are far behind anything that could visit us, but that ISN’T backed up by science. He’d have to explain why we aren’t “root adjacent” right now or that root buys us nothing. Well?
 
Think of the relationship of Iran to nukes for example.
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|content=Iran is now Nuke adjacent. And their facilities and scientists keep running into mysterious problems.  Why? Surely not because Iran is too insignificant to her more advanced neighbors. That would mirror NDT’s argument. My argument is that root level access to nuclei *suffices*.
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|content=Am I saying “Aliens are here”? Of course not. But the “Root Adjacency Hypothesis” is not properly discussed almost anywhere. Which defies all explanation.
 
Perhaps everyone else is right &amp; I’m wrong. Absolutely! But it’s common for the world to make a crazy dumb idea a consensus.
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|timestamp=2:16 AM · Jun 29, 2021
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|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>too
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|content=Physics’ Overton Window.
 
We can talk about CRAZY stuff that’s irrelevant to our lives &amp; never progresses: Boltzmann Brains, Many Worlds, String Theory Unification, AdS, Super-partners, etc.
 
We can’t talk about anything that COULD suddenly change everything. UAP, other TOEs, etc
|timestamp=5:34 PM · Jul 9, 2021
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|content=The point is who labels others crackpots. Or haven’t we noticed?
 
It’s the class who said Hilary would win easily. That we’d banished volatility before 2008. That the Wuhan Lab Leak was racism. That labor shortages exist in mkt economies. That carbs are good, while fat is bad.
|timestamp=6:15 AM · Jul 16, 2021
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|content=Those who believe Jeffery Epstein was a “disgraced financier” rather than a construct of an Intelligence Community &amp; who never ran a billion $ forex hedge fund. People who think String Theory is our leading theory of physics. Or who said NAFTA lifts all boats like a rising tide.
|timestamp=6:15 AM · Jul 16, 2021
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|content=People who believe an octave has 12 notes, but can’t say why 12. Those who think MSNBC just kept misreporting Andrew Yang’s candidacy by accident over and over again. At some point you just have to realize that those who can’t think for themselves HAVE to call those who do names.
|timestamp=6:15 AM · Jul 16, 2021
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|content=It’s tough getting things wrong over &amp; over again as per the above. And every time we go through the exercise the increasingly desperate normies who cling to groups/experts should become more obvious to you. If you’ve followed this account, know that this behavior will NEVER die.
|timestamp=6:15 AM · Jul 16, 2021
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|content=The sheep among us will always be angry because their gods will always fail them until we reform our institutions. Which may or may not happen. Time will tell.
 
But have some compassion: Hug a sheep or NPC today. Tell them there is still hope and it’s not to late to become human.
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|timestamp=6:18 AM · Jul 16, 2021
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|content=I have a very strong emotional connection to Witten’s work and Yang’s. Weinberg always struck me as immensely powerful, but I could never get the sense of “That’s Weinbergian”. That is stylistically rare.
 
A total genius. But one that I couldn’t understand well enough. Alas. RIP
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|content=There were three candidates for world’s greatest living theoretical physicist as I saw it:
 
A) CN Yang</br>
B) Steven Weinberg</br>
C) Edward Witten
 
Weinberg was the favorite of many people I respect. I found his writing style to somehow be both clear and impenetrable at the same time.
|timestamp=1:12 PM · Jul 24, 2021
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|content=But what we just lost is one of our few links back to fundamental physicists who did
.words fail me
actual work on the physics of the 🌎 we live within.
 
It is not much of an exaggeration to say that sometime in the last 20 years, we stopped even trying to do fundamental work.
|timestamp=1:12 PM · Jul 24, 2021
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|content=I met Steven only once. It was an unremarkable interaction. My impression was that he was so smart that he knew to get out of High Energy Theory for the most part. He dutifully defended string theory at times but voted with his feet and his offbeat ideas like Asymptotic Safety.
|timestamp=1:12 PM · Jul 24, 2021
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|content=@HiFromMichaelV @skdh @garrettlisi @stephen_wolfram @DrBrianKeating The great danger in being a String Theory critic is that you take on their mindset when you fight them. Their “Waste of time.” mantra was their modal response to why they didn’t have to read Woit and Smolin’s String-critical books in 2006 and 2007. And Sabine’s in 2018. So odd. https://t.co/EiR950XauZ
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|content=@TheLastSisyphus I don’t think so. String theory is a deep guess about the world. It reflects deep mathematical structure. It has revealed a world of ideas and relationships like no other modern theory has.
 
But it hasn’t worked as advertised. The issue isn’t just experiment but intractability.
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|content=Things got hard. They didn’t get hopeless.
 
Yes we spent almost 40 years lying about string theory. But we could stop today. We could have the leaders in the field admit they made a *colossal* bad bet &amp; ask “What did we dispose of while we were wildly over-hyping string theory?”
|timestamp=12:47 AM · Dec 23, 2021
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|content=At times, the field needs the courage to stand up to its greatest minds just as it has stood by and for them.
 
String theory has not worked as it was claimed it would by those who sold it over competitors.
 
We must face the facts: our physics leadership was simply wrong. Period.
|timestamp=2:12 AM · Dec 23, 2021
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|content=We don’t know that string theory is wrong or unsalvageable. What we know is that we were told back in the 1980s that ST was clearly a slam dunk and would be quickly shown to be the unique possible path forward. That is now clearly false. And what is more, there isn’t a mea culpa.
|timestamp=2:13 AM · Dec 23, 2021
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|content=I’m sorry, but that isn’t right. There are a lot of programs that got run off the road by the String theorists and their assertions that any child could see only ST could work. Well, we need to hear that this hype was straight up cult-like nonsense
from @witten271, Gross &amp; co.
|timestamp=2:13 AM · Dec 23, 2021
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|content=And I think they will do it. Because at this point they don’t want to be remembered as the physicists who marched physics off a cliff.
 
And we should try to be gracious when those late admissions come. Which will be tough. But theoretical physics may not make it without healing.
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|content=@skdh @WeLivetoServe Said differently I’ve been bullish on positive externalities of mathematical physics. But a lot of great math that got done isn’t string theory. It’s claimed to be stringy but it is really mostly mathematical physics or geometric field theory that is claimed by string theorists.
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|content=@skdh @WeLivetoServe QFT &amp; cross-sections sound more like particle theory than Astrophysics, Cosmology or even GR.
 
Would we agree that the collision of Witten/Singer/Quillen/Seiberg/Freed/Bismut/Maldacena/Penrose/Atiyah/
Hitchin/Dijgraff/Vafa/Segal/Jackiw/Kontseivich/Alvarez-Gaume/etc has been magic?
|timestamp=6:11 AM · Dec 24, 2021
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|content=@skdh @WeLivetoServe There are a lot of string theorists who have done things that really matter to geometry, topology, analysis on manifolds, representation theory. And I don’t want to misunderstand your point.
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