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I think there is a spectrum of compression here, so I find myself agreeing with your overall point but with a caveat. Putting aside "experiences" - travel or em
by dkural 1y ago
I think there is a spectrum of compression here, so I find myself agreeing with your overall point but with a caveat. Putting aside "experiences" - travel or emotion - for transmitting information, the level of "desired compression" is based on the background knowledge the receiver brings, and what they consider to be the irrelevant bits.
I will say on historical mathematics - reading the greats shows you the road traveled, and often one realizes the unexplored paths along the way, that lead to brand new continents. This may not be as relevant if one is not trying to innovate.
I would also say reading Newton as a "first book" is positively counter-productive to learning Calculus in high school.
- wredcoll 1y ago> I will say on historical mathematics - reading the greats shows you the road traveled, and often one realizes the unexplored paths along the way, that lead to brand new continents. This may not be as relevant if one is not trying to innovate. I would consider this a function of specialization, which is of course still good, perhaps even required in this modern world, but we can't specialize in everything.
- dkural 1y agoAgreed! I often wonder how LLMs will deal with this eventually. It could be their biggest strength. Some people will want tweet-based responses, some will want book-length. It could generate the right level of content for an audience-of-one, knowing what they know, etc.