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> So it is not like we will ever be left without things to think about.

None of what you wrote, especially this line, makes me think you know what "eating the seed corn" means.



I feel like Randy Waterhouse in the scene where he was trying to (not) participate to a discussion at the table concerning the internet.

Everybody knows what eating the seed corn means.

There is no seed corn analog in mathematics.

Since the fashion that mathematics is problem solving there are lots of farmers ploughing their own field, that I concede.




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