Talked about the Übermensch and whether it’s something you become or an ideal, Zarathustra and the teaching of the overman, the “last man,” Nietzsche as the most-read philosopher in the world and why he speaks to young people’s souls in a way analytic philosophy doesn’t, and the Christian moral interpretation of the world. There are timestamps in the description
Nobody sees a forklift and concludes humans should stop lifting things. So why do we assume the same with intelligence? I tried to develop this idea in the essay above.
The title is about AI but it is really a wide-ranging conversation. He talks about how composition gives a category its personality, then gives an example of the two one-object categories with two morphisms: the x² = 1 ("flip it over") vs x² = x ("break the egg") distinction, both around the 10 minute mark He ends on E8 around the one hour mark: that the densest packing of equal spheres in 8 dimensions is necessarily the E8 lattice, and how it gives the 248-dimensional Lie group. They also discuss a lot about the beauty of math, and it's value in todays society. Curious what you guys think about the valence especially.
I kinda wanna do random roommate (I’m an incoming freshman) bc it sounds more interesting. However I have heard horror stories of evil random roommates. Is this just volunteer bias?
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