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I think his mental health stuff showed up at engineering school. He came in there with a huge allostatic load, fairly high level of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Events) & trauma, possibly some family / genetic susceptibility. Suggests somewhere on (again, putative) schizophrenic...

spectrum. There's a lot there in his dogged insistence. This is a really poignant thing to say. He is standing up, and fighting against, the imputation that he is perceiving others tell him that "two is of no value" It's possible if TH had had better access to resources...

Thanks for digging. I assumed if he'd always been this wacky people would have noticed and he wouldn't be so successful so figured it was a recent break. This makes me a lot more interested in his history/experience

the youtube video is very informative. he explains that he didn't really want to be an actor and he actually wanted to understand physics. i can really feel it in his tone of voice; dude really, really genuinely wants to understand

fascinating section around 13:30 where he basically describes how sqrt(2) is the unique fixed point of iterating x -> x^3 / 2 and bigger numbers blow up and smaller numbers go to zero and then he says "it does not make make sense, and it does not make math make sense"

Just started up vid now, gonna watch a bit tonight then shut it down for the night Super interested in hearing your (and Dai's ) insights

ooh, he starts talking more about 1x1 around 21:30 and basically is describing a confusion about multiplying quantities with units he says, paraphrasing: what's 1$ times 1$? 1$? well, what's 100 pennies times 100 pennies? 10000 pennies? as a kind of proof by contradiction