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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

of course he's wrong in the beginning, 1$ times 1$ is a *square* dollar, and 100 pennies times 100 pennies is 10000 *square* pennies, and a square dollar is 10000 square pennies which removes the contradiction

then he goes on to talk about how he thinks the banks are taking advantage of this contradiction in math to do whatever they want in money, and how it's stunting our ability to understand physics which, damn, if i thought this was happening i'd be giving speeches about it too

So I'm at about 9:50, and will finish watching later. Here's my quick take. He has a wonderful inquisitive mind and damn, I wish he had more positive early experiences in education. (In addition to my speculation about trauma/allostatic load etc elsewhere). He's got a lot of