Outsourcing the burdens of curiosity, creativity, and understanding can lead to greater productivity and faster scientific progress.

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/why-are-we-even-doing-all-this/ > By outsourcing the burdens of curiosity, creativity, and understanding, we can finally focus on what matters most: generating value, maximizing productivity, and accelerating progress towards the ultimate goal of science: a complete repo of potentially true facts in a Library of Babel that nobody will bother reading. (Guest post on Tao's blog from Rikab Gambhir)

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@dysfun/117451943595130836 “By outsourcing the burdens of curiosity, creativity, and understanding, we can finally focus on what matters most: generating value, maximizing productivity, and accelerating progress towards the ultimate goal of science: a complete repo of potentially true facts in a Library of Babel that nobody will bother reading.”