in retrospect maybe a memetic advantage i don't talk or think much about having is that i was AGI-pilled for long enough that i know what having a totalizing narrative about the most important thing feels like from the inside and i know what it feels like to step out of it
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Heh this might be the first time I've seen a recovering person accurately identify "totalizing" as the main sin of AGI-pilled types (and all similarity transforms thereof). It's also why I've tended to dismiss category theory (likely unfairly) as uninteresting because totalizing.
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yeah category theory does trend in that direction and in retrospect it attracted me for similar reasons to LW / yud's writing
The psychologizing of math strikes me as a bit weird, but I'll take it as an update on the kind of communities that surround category theory.
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I guess the opposite would be number theory. Weird isolated pointillist results that don’t add up to any sort of grand-unified satisfying theory.
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not my area, but isn't the langlands progam kind of like a GUT of number theory?
