I feel like I have recently hit the level where “actually deeply grok Bayes mathematically” is plausibly a good step for me.
I generally think that, for all math-mind integration stuff, it’s helpful for people to first look at Michael Smith’s recent twitter rant about how math education conditioned virtually all humans to hate math.
Not just because deconditioning those long years is a critical step for taking math and really feeling like working with it, but also because most of the people writing about math (e.g. textbooks, tutorials, etc) either were conditioned to hate math to some degree, or even if they thoroughly don’t, their own reading will still be largely written by people who were conditioned to hate math to some degree, because literally everyone everywhere in society went through the same long years of math from the education system.
I generally think that, for all math-mind integration stuff, it’s helpful for people to first look at Michael Smith’s recent twitter rant about how math education conditioned virtually all humans to hate math.
Not just because deconditioning those long years is a critical step for taking math and really feeling like working with it, but also because most of the people writing about math (e.g. textbooks, tutorials, etc) either were conditioned to hate math to some degree, or even if they thoroughly don’t, their own reading will still be largely written by people who were conditioned to hate math to some degree, because literally everyone everywhere in society went through the same long years of math from the education system.