Yes, diversity is important, but you have to take into consideration just how much you add to that diversity.
When it comes to physics and information theory, there are people here that know everything you know, and there is nothing you know that nobody here knows.
Your advantage over other people come from your experiences, which give you a unique and possibly enlightening perspective. Your ideas, no doubt, come from that perspective. What you should do now is to study so that you can find out whether your ideas can lead to anything useful, and if it does, so that you can tell us in a way we can understand.
I recommend studying information theory first. You’ll be able to tackle the interesting ideas quickly without having to slog through months of Newtonian mechanics. (Not that mechanics isn’t interesting, it’s just doesn’t seem very relevant to your ideas. It’s also possible to skip most of the early undergraduate physics curriculum and go straight to your fields of interest, which I expect would include statistical mechanics and such, but I really don’t recommend it unless you have an extremely solid foundation in math. Which you should get anyway if you want to get anywhere, but studying years’ worth of prerequisites before the stuff you’re actually interested in is demotivating. Start with the stuff you like and fill in as you notice what you don’t know. This is difficult but doable with information theory, and ridiculous for say, quantum field theory.)
And most importantly, Fix this.
I am not so good at reading, especially hard subjects in English.
You will get nowhere without being a proficient reader. But I’m sure you’ll do fine on this one. The very fact that you’re on Less Wrong means you enjoy reading about abstract ideas. Just read a lot and it’ll come to you.
Usually, college courses are the way to go. Find out if you can sit in at courses at nearby colleges and use the textbooks they use.
Failing that, I see Coursera has a course on information theory.
Yes, diversity is important, but you have to take into consideration just how much you add to that diversity. When it comes to physics and information theory, there are people here that know everything you know, and there is nothing you know that nobody here knows. Your advantage over other people come from your experiences, which give you a unique and possibly enlightening perspective. Your ideas, no doubt, come from that perspective. What you should do now is to study so that you can find out whether your ideas can lead to anything useful, and if it does, so that you can tell us in a way we can understand. I recommend studying information theory first. You’ll be able to tackle the interesting ideas quickly without having to slog through months of Newtonian mechanics. (Not that mechanics isn’t interesting, it’s just doesn’t seem very relevant to your ideas. It’s also possible to skip most of the early undergraduate physics curriculum and go straight to your fields of interest, which I expect would include statistical mechanics and such, but I really don’t recommend it unless you have an extremely solid foundation in math. Which you should get anyway if you want to get anywhere, but studying years’ worth of prerequisites before the stuff you’re actually interested in is demotivating. Start with the stuff you like and fill in as you notice what you don’t know. This is difficult but doable with information theory, and ridiculous for say, quantum field theory.)
And most importantly, Fix this.
You will get nowhere without being a proficient reader. But I’m sure you’ll do fine on this one. The very fact that you’re on Less Wrong means you enjoy reading about abstract ideas. Just read a lot and it’ll come to you.
Usually, college courses are the way to go. Find out if you can sit in at courses at nearby colleges and use the textbooks they use. Failing that, I see Coursera has a course on information theory.