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i think eventually when i get bored of philosophy i'll go back to doing math just because it's fun

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

hell yeah 🧮

tbh beyond the conversation about epistemology and complexity theory i had w a friend last week, all your math-posting + reading Scott Aaronson's old stuff has got me feeling nostalgic

snav

@qorprate

Jan 27, 2021

i only have an undergrad, but it's strange how i feel like my study of philosophy has also made me better at grasping math structures. unsure why.

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

Jan 27, 2021

there's a big common component i feel like people don't talk about. if i had to name the skill it would be something like... quickly and efficiently building and rebuilding ontologies?

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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maybe "ontological remodeling":

metarationality.com

Interlude: Ontological remodeling | Meta-rationality

Reconfiguring categories, properties, and relationships is a meta-rational skill—key in scientific revolutions.

8:11 PM · Jan 27, 2021Twitter Web App

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ohhhh boy this is confusing me because he doesn't seem to be using "ontological" or "category" in the way i expect e.g. plato.stanford.edu/entries/catego

snav

@qorprate

Jan 27, 2021

but yeah i see what you're pointing to. something about being able to rapidly draw logical conclusions from a set of axioms taken as a priori given

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