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by mgnn 2460 days ago
The Concent of Saunt Leibniz.

We can try turning old monasteries into concents à la Neal Stephenson's Anathem. People can go for a year in a unarian math to just study. Maybe a four consecutive years in such a math get equivalent recognition to a university degree. Whether it is the traditional monastic discipline or the Cartasian discipline, the required basic infrastructure is probably similar. Jeejahs stay outside, of course.

Particularly determined professors can populate a decennarian, maybe even a centenarian. Also, isn't there only about 9 years before our scheduled visit by the Icosahedron?

3 comments

My thoughts exactly! I don't have a whole lot of patience for prayer, but near-infinite time for mathing it up sounds amazing...
or a monastery to write code (open source, ofc), when hackathons aren't enough, and (FAANG) campuses too much.
Sign me up!