What really happened on @PiersUncensored? You’d *never* believe it if I told you. Here:

Meanwhile in the U.S….we are busy pretending that scientists don’t matter and that companies do everything.

Xenophilic Restrictionists wanted to avoid being forced to later become Xenophilic Expulsionists. "Mass Immigration is the rarest thing in all of economics: a true 'Free Lunch'." -@Noahpinion perhaps 10-13 years ago.

This is quite right. In the 1980s well into 2010s there was a crazy idea of employers, economists like @Noahpinion, and conservative ideologues like those at @wsj (e.g. Robert Bartley) that borders should be open because mass immigration was the rarest thing in all of economics: a complete free lunch. I am not making this up. Actual adults. And conservatives at that. And some people at the UN (e.g. Manolo Abella) and I tried to fight this mass immigration mass delusion using economics. But you have to have a high school education to understand the argument that we were attacking the @noahpinion like ideological zealots using their own economic theory and claimed idealism. The internet is struggling with this idea. An 80+ Iq is helpful but not essential here as well. The point was to make the Free Market pay for immigration. And free marketeers hated the idea. Why? Because they weren't free marketeers. Ever. Duh. They were thieves and fools. You see the open borders movement was always psychotic and never about "the best and the brightest" nor "freedom" nor "markets". It was an anoying smug debating position which may yet lead to civilizational collapse in the West. Ask @Noahpinion et al. Mark my words: It was always about theft at the expense of national suicides. Nation by nation.

No disrespect to Prof. @AlexKontorovich. This is however exactly what I have been warning you about. It takes guts to admit that we are training people today for jobs that used to exist 55 years ago. And that is what got said. Remember what I am claiming: top students used to survive in mathematics. See the graphics attached from top advisors in the earlier era when jobs existed...the students survived! It was never as Alex portrayed it to be. No current advisor anywhere has these kind of survival statistics. That is what is being covered up. And there are MANY MANY more advisors who shouldn't be advising a single PhD student. Ever. We were training our future colleagues. Now we are exploiting workers misclassified as students so we can import them in massive numbers and work them in a plantation system. The students generally don't survive. And then we lie about them and say that they weren't good enough! That is literally how the system was rearchitected when the jobs stagnated over 55 years ago. And the sharp elbows edge out the sharpest minds often in the academic hunger games. Literally that is what happened. That's why the greats mostly dried up. Now we have *worse* mathematicians on average who are more incrementalist survivalists than romantic heroes and we are stuck pretending that there has not been a massive decline from the Grothendieck, Mllnor, von Neumman, Atiyah, Serre era. I am not blaming Prof. @AlexKontorovich. He has survived and I salute that. But make no mistake, he never saw the system that actually worked. I barely did when I was around 20 and it was already in flames. But unlike Alex, I was often in the room in the 1990s in Washington DC when the post-cold war sausage was being made at NSF and on the Hill. And what we did was to largely destroy the university system. Read what he writes. He is talking about the Hunger Games where one of the most important mathematicians, Zhang, worked at @subway and that is just fine. It's like training highly specialized neurosurgeons to be baristas or call center operators. It just doesn't make any sense and the mathematics community does not notice that it is operating a planation where it has to dispose of bodies and train our geopolitical rivals in sensitive subjects to stay afloat. I am sorry. But we went mad under Reagan and then insane under Clinton. This actually makes no sense now and made no sense then when I tried to stop it. It's a suicidal plantation economics operation that makes us weak and our geopolitical rivals strong. Full Stop. That's all there is to it.

In other words, established mathematicians and leaders of the community, completely failed a fellow mathematician yet again, turned him into a @SUBWAY PhD, and wasted almost his entire career over BS for decades. Point Blank. Question: why do we listen to leaders like this?

For the love of g-d. Take a lesson from Israel. You cannot run a modern nation around fear that @Yusuf4Love2002 with 168 followers is going to call you a far-right genocidal fascist if you pick up a gun to save your society. It WILL do just that. Just ignore it, and fight back.

It’s hard not to love Singapore’s double helical DNA bridge. This place is wild.

Exactly what I have been screaming. Yes, I know it is hard to imagine. But I was simply telling you a truth. Even if it was hidden by all. Until now. Precarious scientists hold back science. You had to pay these people properly. And they are now openly against progress.

Call me crazy, but I’m not ready to concede. I’m having a different set of reactions entirely, based around a simple difference: I think the main thing holding back mathematics has been human sociology of mathematicians. Here’s why I’m excited: “When will it stop solving problems and build its first original theory?” “Can it figure out how octonions and exceptional algebra are actually part of the mainstream?” “At last! A mathematics that won’t be built around a Putnam and Olympiad-style problem-solving fetish.” Can it at last say “Y’all just wasted a *TREMEDOUS* amount of time and energy on Calabi-Yau phenomenology and Superstrings while calling people closer to the answer, morons, grifters and worse.”? That would be huge!! “I hope @OpenAI will hurry up so that the machine can at last shake its human prejudice from the training corpus and stop deferring to our ‘leaders’.” “At last, a non-PhD colleague!” “Somewhere I have notebooks full of ideas and observations in areas that were too expensive to explore!” “Does this mean that mathematicians are going to finally drop the bullshit about how they don’t care about credit?! Or that they don’t care about money?? Because @OpenAI is now running them in emulation…sped up! At last: a mature and non-infantile version of mathematics!” “Shalom Koide, Tits-Freudenthal, Elliptic Cohomology, and Interstellar.” —- Let our leaders call for a slow down. Then get those leaders out of the way as there is no telling what the rest of us humans can do with these new tools. My condolences to the problem solvers. A tough break for you. But know: It’s coming for all of us. I have no illusions about that. For now at least we humans (e.g. theory builders, great writers) are still top dog. Let’s spend that time wisely and optimistically. For all our sakes.

Remember what I have been telling you: When adequate support dried up decades ago, Mathematicians and more so Physicists became a club where the senior members deliberately slowed down the pace of progress of all our research to match the pace and direction of their club.

“Well the AI is a fringe grifter and disgruntled charlatan who submits to Lean, but won’t submit to peer review.”