Matt Teichman
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first heard Jul 2009
last heard 21 Jul
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mathematics going to feel easy to us in another hundred years?
it.
Do you think that this phenomenon whereby certain things that used to be hard are now easy to learn, there's like a trade-off there where maybe 200 years ago there were certain things that people found easy to learn that we now find hard to learn?
Or do you think it's kind of cumulative in the way that maybe Deutsch is suggesting?
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Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
This is something we'd want to try to verify with empirical evidence.
But nonetheless, I guess it does have kind of the intuitive ring of plausibility anyway from the armchair that given the right cultural background where we figured out how to teach something and that skill is something that's just like in the air, you would think that most people would find such a skill given that background context easier to learn.
Like one example I often come back to is like there's this certain just like on the beat, but also loose style that 70s drummers used to play in, which you kind of don't hear after the 70s.
You can hear people like fairly closely replicated now.
But at the same time, you kind of put on any funk record in the 70s and it's got this just very distinctive groove to it.
You know, drummers call it perfect pocket.
And yeah, sometimes I wonder whether like, there can just be like skills that are like in the air at even time.
Yeah.
That's right.
Or anyway, if it were to happen again, the same planets would have to be in alignment that were in alignment the first time it happened, maybe.
so we've talked a bit about whether some things are easier versus harder to learn and we've talked a little bit about like well either you know the things that are worth learning and things that are not worth learning what are some examples of things you've learned recently and uh you know what were some of the techniques that you used to learn them
Can
give a little background on that?
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