Another hypothesis: the moment of compression feels amazing, because you need to deeply understand something about a phenomenon to compress it. The zip file feels mundane and doesn’t include the insight of building new frontiers in your compression library.
This seems true. The Eureka feeling is pretty good, to the point that some people get slightly addicted to looking for insights (hence the concept “insight porn”). Even if you figure out something amazing, this feeling tends to fade away, even though the value of the discovery remains the same.
But I think this is a different idea than “knowing something vs internalizing it”, and that the difficulty of communicating wisdom is yet another idea.
I think that wisdom maps to words just fine, but in a reductive way, such that the words don’t map back to the wisdom. The words can be thought of as a hash of the wisdom. So it’s recognizable to you, but to those who have never made the insight, the words are like a pointer (programming term) leading to nothing
Another hypothesis: the moment of compression feels amazing, because you need to deeply understand something about a phenomenon to compress it. The zip file feels mundane and doesn’t include the insight of building new frontiers in your compression library.
This seems true. The Eureka feeling is pretty good, to the point that some people get slightly addicted to looking for insights (hence the concept “insight porn”). Even if you figure out something amazing, this feeling tends to fade away, even though the value of the discovery remains the same.
But I think this is a different idea than “knowing something vs internalizing it”, and that the difficulty of communicating wisdom is yet another idea.
I think that wisdom maps to words just fine, but in a reductive way, such that the words don’t map back to the wisdom. The words can be thought of as a hash of the wisdom. So it’s recognizable to you, but to those who have never made the insight, the words are like a pointer (programming term) leading to nothing
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