Sarah Walker
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard Jun 2024
Sarah Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Exactly.
Yeah. So there's no such thing as experimental Platonism. But if you think math is an object that emerged in our biosphere, you can start experimenting with that idea. And that to me is really interesting.
Like to think about, well, people, I mean, mathematicians do think about math sometimes as an experimental science, but to think about math itself as an object for study by physicists rather than a tool physicists use to describe reality, it becomes the part of reality they're trying to describe to me as a deeply interesting inversion.
I love the way it makes me feel.
Yeah. So I think I love, yeah, I love the way it makes me feel to have ideas that I think are novel. And I think that the dual side of that is the painful process of trying to communicate that with other human beings to test if they have any kind of reality to them.
uh and i also love that process i love trying to figure out how to explain really deep abstract things that i don't think that we understand and trying to understand them with other people and i also love the shock value of uh you like this kind of idea we were talking about before of like being on the boundary of like what we understand and so people can kind of see what you're seeing but they
I love the shock value that, like, people have, like, that immediate moment of recognizing that there's something beyond the way that they thought about things before.
And being able to deliver that to people, I think, is one of the biggest joys that I have is just, like, maybe it's that sense of mystery, like, to share that there's something beyond the frontier of how we understand and we might be able to see it.
Yes. And I think my greatest wish in life is to somehow contribute to an idea that transforms the way that we think. I have my problem I want to solve, but the thing that gives me joy about it is really changing something. And ideally getting to a deeper understanding of how the world works and what we are.
It's the only way to do anything.
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