Terence Tao's Four-Scale Framework for Understanding Human Society and Collaborative Math
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bertman
You can taste the rush. The dough hadn't risen.
Summary
Terence Tao shares loosely organized thoughts on the current "Zeitgeist" in collaborative mathematics, inspired by the response to his meta-project. He proposes a framework for understanding human society as interactions across four scales: individual humans, small organized groups, large organized groups, and large complex systems. The post reflects on the state of small-scale collaborative math projects and their communities.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledAs a crude first approximation, one can think of human society as the interaction between entities at four different scales.
They were inspired by the response to my recent meta-project... where within 24 hours I became aware of a large number of ongoing small-scale collaborative math projects with their own modest but active community
but they are from the perspective of a human rather than a mathematician.
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