Significant Digits, the unofficial sequel to HPMOR. A certain section (alas, I don’t recall which) singlehandedly leveled me up as human being.
The text immediately and irrevocably rewired my brain, to the degree that I stopped reading and thought to myself, “I don’t know the full consequences yet, but whatever just happened in my head is staggeringly important to my personal development.” I was right.
I’ve been trying to succinctly describe my insight for about three years. The best I have so far is this: people are the person who arrived at a moment, not the person in the moment. For the more mathematically inclined, individuals are the integral of their experiences, not the sum.
In practice, it was like suddenly developing empathy and a theory of mind in the span of 60 seconds. While reading fan fiction of fan faction.
Significant Digits, the unofficial sequel to HPMOR. A certain section (alas, I don’t recall which) singlehandedly leveled me up as human being.
The text immediately and irrevocably rewired my brain, to the degree that I stopped reading and thought to myself, “I don’t know the full consequences yet, but whatever just happened in my head is staggeringly important to my personal development.” I was right.
I’ve been trying to succinctly describe my insight for about three years. The best I have so far is this: people are the person who arrived at a moment, not the person in the moment. For the more mathematically inclined, individuals are the integral of their experiences, not the sum.
In practice, it was like suddenly developing empathy and a theory of mind in the span of 60 seconds. While reading fan fiction of fan faction.
Huh – do you remember any clues at all about where/what-the-context was for the passage in question? Super curious.