Posted in ideas, math, science, transhumanism on 2008-05-12 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about math a lot recently. Learning it has become a bit of an obsession.
I’ve come to believe that there is a fundamental mistake in the way society conceptualizes math.
“You need it for physics, engineering, computer graphics…”
“It’s a subject at school. Pass the exam and forget it.”
or even “it’s the study of things [...]
Posted in Bayesian, Eliezer Yudkowsky, artificial intelligence, atheism, ideas, mind, transhumanism on 2008-03-20 | No Comments »
It has been a few months since I posted here, and surprisingly much water has gone under the bridge. For most of my enlightenment, I owe Eliezer Yudkowsky, who is much smarter than me and something of a hero. (He’s also an autodidact. I will catch up to you!)
The two largest changes: I have come [...]
