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Personally, I do believe that math as a discipline has this huge issue of being mostly incomprehensible garbage. Not because the actual truth encoded in it wou
by hypfer 5mo ago
Personally, I do believe that math as a discipline has this huge issue of being mostly incomprehensible garbage.
Not because the actual truth encoded in it would be this complex, but because the encoding scheme just sucks.
I see it as a packaging problem that has so far not been painful enough to trigger any meaningful change.
With this LLM-driven collapse, that might finally change.
Idk I'm hopeful.
Math is literally the law of the universe.
It makes zero sense that the way that it is taught needs some special brain wiring only found in small chunks of the population to truly click.
- andrewflnr 5mo ago> Math is literally the law of the universe. It makes zero sense that the way that it is taught needs some special brain wiring Ok, I'm all for overhauling math notation and teaching but this doesn't follow. Most animals can't do Math, even if they can do arithmetic. Clearly living in the universe doesn't guarantee you can learn how it works. There's no reason to believe we slightly smarter animals are universally entitled to understand it either.
- desterothx 5mo agoIf you have a problem with the math notation, you should open a law book, and look at the terminology mess they have going on. I like math notation, because it can be simply converted into natural language, thus removing the notation from the equation and leaving pure logic. Once you have that, thinking about it and working out what the original notation actually meant should be on you, that's how you build an understanding of math.
- hypfer 5mo agoCompelling argument. Counterpoint: no