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@mekarpeles
After many hours of 🤔 towards the goal of agreeing w/
@andy_matuschak
, I deduced: 1. "working" to mean: reliably ensure mastery of complex non-fiction principles 2. that [1] requires a Turing machine 3. that a book cannot itself be a Turing machine w/o using the human as tape []
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@mekarpeles
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andymatuschak.org/books > I had barely noticed how little I’d absorbed until that very moment. [...] The situation only feels embarrassing because it’s hard to see how common it is. @andy_matuschak I see the role of books quite differently; books influence before they teach.
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Mek
@mekarpeles
If
@nealstephenson
's "Primer" → NFA, I can imagine an exhaustive paper "choose your own adventure" w/ millions of pages → DFA which implements SRS, Q's & A's. But if our standard for "working" is robustness against Gödel Incompleteness, I conceded a Turing machine is necessary.
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