Clojure and the Magnifica Humanitas

In the Magnifica Humanitas, the pope has a tell on AI in a way aligns with my ideas. Outside the idea of AI in war, the thing that came more to my attention is education.

I picked up Clojure about 10 days ago. I have been learning more about it via the brave and true book. I complained on how I am not making any progress, practical wise. Nothing to show for the fact that I am reading the book and this is not my first language. Yes clojure is weird and different than most mainstream languages but that shouldn’t hold me back, I contemplated.

I thought of migrating from reading the book only to watching tutorials.

In the dissection of the Magnifica Humanitas, Joshua blais explains on how knowledge is built from pain. All profound understanding is built from pain. The quicker it takes for you to understand something, the quicker it will leave your mental.

When you migrate to video learning, you think you understand everything but it’s a mental illusion which gives off a false positive. Tutorial hell is proof that learning with AI is a bad idea.

All knowledge in any field requires “skin in the game”. To practice, to read, to ask and to practice again. The more you go around doing this when you pick up a technology, the better you will have a solid grasp. Sure it might not look like so but it is happening.

In the words of Alex hormozi, It will happen slower than you want but faster than you expect.