Applied Category Theory (ACT) is a very new kind of math which
focuses on systems rather than optimization. Hence it is
well-suited for addressing the world's most pressing issues,
which are systemic in nature. There is
a shared belief in the ACT
community that we are sitting on a gold-mine
—
ACT is powerful stuff — but it is not clear to us how to
make use of this gold-mine for good, as we are mostly
mathematicians with little understanding of the world outside
mathematics. Furthermore, we are very anxious about others
making use of this gold-mine for evil.
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