"I imagine this dream is common to all academics:

Looking up at the stars in wonderment, or enjoying a complex puzzle game, or being inspired by an encouraging teacher, and dreaming that one day an unfeeling corporate robot will burn a rainforest to compile a list of 700 highly obscure barely-readable facts that *might* be true that nobody can understand as part of a marketing gimmick to raise hype for an IPO."

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/why-are-we-even-doing-all-this/