Why just math? This may seem like an obvious question, but your hypothesis applies to any type of learning: how to be a better parent, how to self-regulate emotions, moral philosophy, systems thinking or statistical thinking, physics, and so on.
Maybe! I’m most interested in math because of its utility for AI alignment and because math (especially advanced math) is notoriously considered “hard” or “impenetrable” by many people (even people who otherwise consider themselves smart/competent). Part of that is probably lack of good math-intuitions (grokking-by-playing-with-concept, maths-is-about-abstract-objects, law-thinking, etc.).
Why just math? This may seem like an obvious question, but your hypothesis applies to any type of learning: how to be a better parent, how to self-regulate emotions, moral philosophy, systems thinking or statistical thinking, physics, and so on.
Maybe! I’m most interested in math because of its utility for AI alignment and because math (especially advanced math) is notoriously considered “hard” or “impenetrable” by many people (even people who otherwise consider themselves smart/competent). Part of that is probably lack of good math-intuitions (grokking-by-playing-with-concept, maths-is-about-abstract-objects, law-thinking, etc.).