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> This sounds a lot like you may have in fact succumbed to your abstraction ceiling

It sounds more like you're turning a vibes based theory into a tautology.

Hofstadter struggling with math for the first time in graduate school isn't a unique story, nor is his self introspection about this event a good basis for an apparently unfalsifiable theory about human cognition.

parent magicalist 1 month ago

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