>If you can’t stop thinking about transistors, you will find it hard to focus on and fully appreciate the boolean algebra you’re executing on your logic gates made out of transistors.
I think the point Gordon was making was the opposite. you’ve described a leaky abstraction of logic gates that works at a base level, but that doesn’t hold muster when you actually look at the transistors.
For me for instance, a basic strategy of “make the alternatives I endorse really easy and highly rewarding, and the alternatives I don’t really hard and highly punishing” worked really really well for me for a long time, and was sufficient to overcome some of my most obvious bottlenecks.
However, that kind of thinking actively became harmful at a certain point in my development, when I hit diminishing returns on brute forcing my motivation system (I encountered problems that couldn’t be brute forced that way, and these problems were my bottlenecks) and had to take a step back to understand what was actually going on, understanding my internal parts, belief orientations and awareness, etc.
>If you can’t stop thinking about transistors, you will find it hard to focus on and fully appreciate the boolean algebra you’re executing on your logic gates made out of transistors.
I think the point Gordon was making was the opposite. you’ve described a leaky abstraction of logic gates that works at a base level, but that doesn’t hold muster when you actually look at the transistors.
For me for instance, a basic strategy of “make the alternatives I endorse really easy and highly rewarding, and the alternatives I don’t really hard and highly punishing” worked really really well for me for a long time, and was sufficient to overcome some of my most obvious bottlenecks.
However, that kind of thinking actively became harmful at a certain point in my development, when I hit diminishing returns on brute forcing my motivation system (I encountered problems that couldn’t be brute forced that way, and these problems were my bottlenecks) and had to take a step back to understand what was actually going on, understanding my internal parts, belief orientations and awareness, etc.