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Thought experiment. Take the top 7 books that have shaped your thinking as a “stack” in the software sense running on the hardware of your brain. Would someone else who shared your top 7 be able to follow along most of your thinking, say 80%?
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Don’t take the particular numbers seriously. Think of it as: do the first n books explain m% of your thinking where m(n) is a positive definite function? (ie the more books you share in your stack with me, in the same order, the closer your thinking to mine)... true or false?
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Many people seem to loosely operate on this assumption, which is sort of like a blank slate model where books get loaded in and interconnected, and a sort of “principal component analysis” yields books in order of explained fraction.
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depends on what you define the “kernel” as i.e. the interface between the hardware & software. i’d argue that (in this context) it’d constitute background and lived experiences... that fundamental difference would determine how the “stack” would influence diff people’s thinking
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No, unless maybe they also happen to be a Singaporean Indian who married their first girlfriend at 22, bought a home at 23, was “gifted” in school, repeated a year, didn’t go to university, parents ran a family business, is hideously online,
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