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by alexshortt 2151 days ago
I really love his emphasis on modelling as a skill. Its obviously great applied to technical skills like computer science, but he seems to apply it to everything else in the human experience so well.

"everything that we sense is part of the same object ... we learn it all into one model ... we call this model the universe" https://youtu.be/P-2P3MSZrBM?t=1796

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Reminds me of "the world is its own best model" and the subsumption architecture of Rodney Brooks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture

Everything is a model. The only thing that exists to the mind And actually in the world is models.
As above, so below
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