stupid problem
embarrassingly simple math since forever
I should have been years ahead of my peers
momentary lack of algebraic insight (“I could solve this in an instant if only I could get rid of that radical”)
for which I’ve had the intuitions since before 11th grade when they began teaching it to us
Sorry to jump from object-level to meta-level here but it seems pretty clear that the problem here is not just about math. Your subjective assessments of how difficult these topics are is inconsistent with how well you report you are doing at them. And you’re attaching emotions of shame and panic (“problem has snowballed”) to observations that should just be objective descriptions of where you are now. Get these issues figured out first (unless you’re in some educational setting with its own deadlines). Math isn’t going anywhere; it will still be there when you’re in a place where doing it won’t cause you distress.
This just shifts the question to how you slotted FinalState into such a promising reference class? Conservatively, tens of academic research programs, tens of PhD dissertations, hundreds of hobbyist projects, hundreds of undergraduate term projects, and tens of business ventures have attempted something similar to AGI and none have succeeded.