I appreciate this framing a lot and I really enjoyed the post.
On the topic of living forever, I worry that people who aren't super smart might not be able to find nearly as much joy in random activities/concepts. If I were locked in a room with Richard Feynman I'm not sure that I would actually love physics; I might just come out very confused and a bit drained.
I worry that my brain is simply unable to deeply understand and appreciate theoretical physics, and even if it were, I don't know if I have the willpower to sit through Feynman explaining quar... (read more)
Thanks!
I am of the opinion that this stuff is just generally interesting to the human mind, and that the core concepts actually can be simplified and framed such that the average person can understand them. Executing on it is definitely a huge task though that we are not close to succeeding at.
I think I'm envisioning it differently. I'm envisioning it being explained excellently such that you're never straining, and are always being pushed just slightly beyond what you currently know. In practice this rarely happens, but it is theoretically possible.
I suppose. Although I think that in practice, once you reach whatever point where people run out of interesting ideas, technology will have reached the point where we'll be able to side-step that problem.
I appreciate this framing a lot and I really enjoyed the post.
On the topic of living forever, I worry that people who aren't super smart might not be able to find nearly as much joy in random activities/concepts. If I were locked in a room with Richard Feynman I'm not sure that I would actually love physics; I might just come out very confused and a bit drained.
I worry that my brain is simply unable to deeply understand and appreciate theoretical physics, and even if it were, I don't know if I have the willpower to sit through Feynman explaining quar... (read more)