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comment by humanodon
humanodon  ·  4028 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do grad students in math do all day?

I don't think it's necessarily true that people who study the arts "cannot apply their craft to the production of new technologies." After all, art is at its core about ideas and exploring them. There is innovation in the arts as there is in all things, though it's not always obvious what those things are, or how they contribute to the production of new technologies.