Edward Frenkel
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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I'm kind of playing devil's advocate a little bit because I don't see the other side, so to quote unquote, represented that much.
And I'm saying, okay, could it be also that if you believe in that, that that becomes your reality?
That you can kind of put yourself in a box
where everything is computation.
And then you start seeing things as being such.
It's confirmation bias, if you will.
This also reminds me, I think a good analogy is a friend of mine, Philippe Cochin, told me that in France, there is this literary movement, which is called Oulipo.
O-U-L-I-P-O.
And it's a bunch of writers and mathematicians who create works of literature
in which they basically impose certain constraints.
A good example of this is a novel, which is called The Void or Disappearance, by a writer named Georges Perec, which is a 300-page novel in French.
which never uses the letter E, which is the most widely used letter of the French language.
So in other words, he set these parameters for himself.
I'm going to write a book where I don't use this letter, which is a great experiment and I applaud it.
But it's one thing to do that and to kind of show his,
gamesmanship, if you will, and his ability as a writer.
But it's another thing if at the end of writing this book, when you finish the book, he would say, letter E actually doesn't exist.
And he tried to convince us that in fact, French language does not have that letter, simply because he was able to go so far without using it, you see.
So self-imposed limitation, that's how I see it.
And I wonder why
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