/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7500170

Calm down, your own 'tism is showing.

Anyway, this attitude is exactly why G.H. Hardy (rightfully) liked the conceit that his discoveries probably could not be used for killing. Quoth the excellent Hardy, from pic related:

"There is one comforting conclusions which is easy for a real mathematician. Real mathematics has no effects on war. No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems very unlikely that anyone will do so for many years. It is true that there are branches of applied mathematics, such as ballistics and aerodynamics, which have been developed deliberately for war and demand a quite elaborate technique... They are indeed repulsively ugly and intolerably dull... So a real mathematician has his conscience clear; there is nothing to be set against any value his work may have... The trivial mathematics, on the other hand, has many applications in war. The gunnery experts and aeroplane designers, for example, could not do their work without it... Mathematics facilitates (if not so obviously as physics or chemistry) modern, scientific, ‘total’ war."

Even if some detail of the above is now factually incorrect, the /conceit/ is still right, which is that it is generally regrettable that any science should be turned toward killing. Even coders don't like the idea of their stuff being used maliciously. Nor is it worth mentioning that you yourself find this subject "intolerably dull". Because, in a definite sense, your feelings don't matter. Because...

What really matters is, that every aspect of this thread falls within 4chan's global rules (legal, work-safe, etc), the board-specific rules, overall encouragements for quality content creation, and even the current mod sticky (no homework). In literally every sense, this thread has a perfect rule-following privilege to exist on this board, any anyone who doesn't like it can easily hide the thread, and check out other threads!

>>6696680
>26 posts
>Not one mentioning mathematician's apology

Well shit.