9-1b0a When you have learned something, the way it exists in your mind is the same as the way it exists in the mind of the inventor

A learned idea is equivalent to a new idea. Both have been created and criticized in the mind.

But it’s not exactly the same. Because in certain proofs (e.g., zero-knowledge proofs) the verifier does not have to go though the prover’s thought processes.

Next:

• 9-1b0b ‘If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.‘BorrowedCreativity
  • 1-2e1 Be ambitious but leverage what you already know
  • 2-1c1 ‘Comparative advantage’ - If others can do it, let them

Related:

• Verifying something means
• 2-1b2f ‘Equivalence’ - Reality doesn’t care genealogy. Solving problems is what matters. How it’s done matters less.
  • Despite 9-2b3c We are more different than we are alike
• 3-1c3b2 Reading the ‘original’ texts should not be the default to learn about philosophy (or anything for that matter)
• 4-1a4b3d The ‘ledger of record’ shifts the focus to adjacent layers
  • 9-2a1 It doesn’t matter where you came from (or where you are); what matters is what you can do and where you are going
• 5-1b1a1 Improving on already existent technology by removing one of its restraints amounts to innovation
• 6-3b3b Not differentiating developers from users mean what attracts the former also attracts the latter, and vice versa
  • If you use anything with the same understanding as the creator, it’s as though you created that product yourself!develop
    • 9-1b0c Reality doesn’t differentiate reading-thinking-writing-playing-doing-investing-building
• 8-1c2a What matters is the creativity per se, because non-creative parts will be made easier
• 10-2g5 Every invention is built up over time within culture
• 12-1a2a Crypto is network-ideological movement and doesn’t differentiate Chinese and Americans
  • ”Interobjective”develop
• Implication for creative interpretation ‘創造的読者’develop
  • An ability to recombine ideas itself is creativity, but we don’t know where it comes fromdevelop
  • 3-1c2f In tech, most of the value is in the ordering, in the useful configuration of zeroes and ones, which users click to pay for it
    • But in the sense of configuration of words
      • Because of cultural differences, everyone can write something that resonates with someone else
        • It’s probably impossible to write something that resonates with everyone (e.g., 10-2g1a Science emerged from culture)
          • But remember: resonates doesn’t mean being read uniformly, because 9-1b1a It almost never happens that two minds hold precisely the same idea
            • 9-4b3d Experience can only provide you with parochial problems, but its solution often consists of some universality which can be applied elsewhere
              • 1-1a2e6a The dark matter of mind is multilayered, differentially manifested, and variously derived from the experiences of living

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The results from Anthropic study: participants in the AI group finished faster by about two minutes (not statistically significant), yet on average, the AI group also scored significantly worse on the quiz—17% lower, or roughly two letter grades. The high scorers (65%+) did something different: some generated code first, then asked follow-up questions to understand what they’d produced; others requested explanations alongside the code; the fastest group asked only conceptual questions, then coded independently while troubleshooting their own errors.

In short, you have to understand what’s been done.

Related:

• 2-1a0aa Applied Occam’s razor - ‘If you can’t program it, you don’t understand it. If you can’t write about it, you can’t code it.’