Thought as a Technology

Re:Thought as a Technology by Animats on Monday November 28, 2016 @06:24PM (#13059313)

This is interesting, but combines about five ideas. Expanding any one of those would be useful. The notion of a "transformative interface" seems to combine two concepts - "Wow factor" and "representation that yields insight". Those are different. The latter is more useful (but the former is more profitable.) Feynman diagrams come to mind.

Sussman's talk on how to think about circuits is here.[1] Here are the slides.[2] The video shows Sussman's talking head and him pointing at an off-screen display of the slides, which is not too helpful.

[1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-... [2] http://web.mit.edu/xtalks/Sussman-xTalk-3-2-16.pdf

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Re:Thought as a Technology by chewxy on Monday November 28, 2016 @06:27PM (#13059328)

often though, representations that yield insight have some wow factor to them, especially if the world hasn't seen it before.

Between Nielsen and Bret Vector, I'm kinda jealous about what my future kids can learn with much more ease.

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