it appears to me that there is only one way to get a rational and balanced discussion. Directors should hire a second advisor to make the case against the proposed acquisition, with its fee contingent on the deal not going through
it’s about getting physical, spatial training data for our biological neural networks
without this the data our neural networks are trained on are the words of others, i.e. their attempts to make persuasive arguments
BUT the most important things we would like to model are complex systems
to develop not “gut feel” but the right kind of gut feel, i.e. gut feel based on having an intrinsic understanding of the system rather than gut feel based on not wanting to let your drinking buddy down
I believe that we can learn to reason about things without understanding them!
How can we unlock the reasoning ability of thousands of people
who are currently stuck regarding reasoning about large datasets because they can’t program?
A lot of Victor’s stuff is really ambitious.
I’m much more excited by the idea of checklists than Bret Victor’s stuff
Victor is clearly a visual thinker, but what about people with other thinking styles?
One reason Victor’s stuff hasn’t come to pass is because the market for consumer applications is far larger (1000x?) than tools