IlyaShpitser comments on Social class amongst the intellectually gifted - Less Wrong

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 03 June 2015 01:05:19PM *  2 points [-]

I'm worried that math and physics and theoretical CS are just nerd-snipery

No way, especially not physics. We as a civ need to do more of this stuff, not less, compared to what we are doing now.

I can't think of any category of human activity that did more to improving the world than the hard sciences. Maaaaybe some religions in the "convince people to stop killing each other and cooperate long enough to get science off the ground" sense.