My previous post on QFT, Homotopy Theory and Ai etc. fits very good to this one, as it is about a special case related to computer science and AI (acc. to their selfdescriptions both a core part of “Singularity”-discussions and fitting to the forum member’s areas of specialization/interests), and at the same time part of research programs in which the mathem. mentioned above are active. So I wonder about the strange reactions? (Princeton IAS and Fance’s IHES surely are not below the intellectual level here, even if the selfreported IQ’s acc. to the survey are above those of Feynman or Grothendieck...)
I upvoted your post and don’t know what the people who downvoted it were thinking.
One possible issue is an absence of background. I felt that the content was sufficiently strong so that it deserved to be upvoted, but few people in the audience have the relevant background knowledge, and so maybe they downvoted it because they didn’t know what you were referring to when you mentioned QFT and homotopy theory.
Another possible issue was the spelling/grammar/syntax/formatting.
Concerning the spelling, “exiting” should be “exciting,” “selfreported” should be “self-reported” and “Eifel” should be “Eiffel.”
Concerning the grammar, “analogue to localized categories” should be “analogous to localized categories,” “here an example” should be “here is an example,” “I wonder what else concepts” should be “I wonder what other concepts,” “I myself take them only serious” should be “I myself only take them seriously.”
Concerning formatting, it looks like you attempted to format the links in the same way that one formats links in the comments on LW and this resulted in the words that you wanted to hyperlink not being hyperlinked. For top level posts one instead uses the html link button in the header.
Thanks for your answer. The html link button did not work when I posted it. As far as AI etc., the possible relevance of homotopy theory is a theme since the 1970′s, so it should be not too alien to anyone interested in pattern recogn. and related fields. It is similar unlikely that renormalization from QFT should be an entirely unknown theme, as that sort of dealing with generating series even in cases where they are seemingly ill-defined is a bit issue since long in e.g. combinatorics.
As far as AI etc., the possible relevance of homotopy theory is a theme since the 1970′s, so it should be not too alien to anyone interested in pattern recogn. and related fields. It is similar unlikely that renormalization from QFT should be an entirely unknown theme, as that sort of dealing with generating series even in cases where they are seemingly ill-defined is a bit issue since long in e.g. combinatorics.
Here I think you overestimate how common your breadth/versatility is. I’ve met very few people who have heard of all of the mathematical connections that you have. A point to bear in mind here is the fact that you’ve spent substantial time in very elite environments like MPI subjects you to a strong selection effect that may have subjected you to highly unrepresentative data concerning what most intellectually curious people know.
My previous post on QFT, Homotopy Theory and Ai etc. fits very good to this one, as it is about a special case related to computer science and AI (acc. to their selfdescriptions both a core part of “Singularity”-discussions and fitting to the forum member’s areas of specialization/interests), and at the same time part of research programs in which the mathem. mentioned above are active. So I wonder about the strange reactions? (Princeton IAS and Fance’s IHES surely are not below the intellectual level here, even if the selfreported IQ’s acc. to the survey are above those of Feynman or Grothendieck...)
I upvoted your post and don’t know what the people who downvoted it were thinking.
One possible issue is an absence of background. I felt that the content was sufficiently strong so that it deserved to be upvoted, but few people in the audience have the relevant background knowledge, and so maybe they downvoted it because they didn’t know what you were referring to when you mentioned QFT and homotopy theory.
Another possible issue was the spelling/grammar/syntax/formatting.
Concerning the spelling, “exiting” should be “exciting,” “selfreported” should be “self-reported” and “Eifel” should be “Eiffel.”
Concerning the grammar, “analogue to localized categories” should be “analogous to localized categories,” “here an example” should be “here is an example,” “I wonder what else concepts” should be “I wonder what other concepts,” “I myself take them only serious” should be “I myself only take them seriously.”
Concerning formatting, it looks like you attempted to format the links in the same way that one formats links in the comments on LW and this resulted in the words that you wanted to hyperlink not being hyperlinked. For top level posts one instead uses the html link button in the header.
Thanks for your answer. The html link button did not work when I posted it. As far as AI etc., the possible relevance of homotopy theory is a theme since the 1970′s, so it should be not too alien to anyone interested in pattern recogn. and related fields. It is similar unlikely that renormalization from QFT should be an entirely unknown theme, as that sort of dealing with generating series even in cases where they are seemingly ill-defined is a bit issue since long in e.g. combinatorics.
Here I think you overestimate how common your breadth/versatility is. I’ve met very few people who have heard of all of the mathematical connections that you have. A point to bear in mind here is the fact that you’ve spent substantial time in very elite environments like MPI subjects you to a strong selection effect that may have subjected you to highly unrepresentative data concerning what most intellectually curious people know.