saying the term 'mathematical wizard' definitely doesnt make you sound like a douche
STEMlord writes an article about how understanding engineering makes them better than people who can write well
Yeah but how the fuck do any of those engineering concepts get explained?
Right? It's as if the people who get promoted in these types of environments are the ones that are the best at talking.
All my bros are rotating tesseracts in their mind, coloring different surfaces in colors that don't exist in the real world, some surfaces displaying their favorite gifs but with orcs in bootcut jeans, all my bros are analphabets
Interestingly enough, people with aphantasia perform just as well as people without on mental rotation tests. It does take them longer and they don't vividly "see" the shapes in their mind's eye, but they still feel and perceive the rotation on some level of cognition.
I wonder how many people could've avoided being sucked into Yudkowsky's cult if they'd just read "Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?"
Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone.
