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42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 November 2007 10:42PM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 18 November 2007 12:50:33AM 11 points [-]

I remember reaching exactly this point and making exactly this wish many years ago. I tried to learn as many fields as I could by reading introductory textbooks, and most of those texts avoid any math. I thought that a text that was willing to use simple math could teach me a lot more a lot faster. My theory was that there were too few people who could handle simple math and would want to learn many fields to support the book. But I'd love to be shown wrong.