the very thing that damns one is also the reservoir from which compositional priors draw their richness. one doesn’t get combinatorial productivity unless already inhabits a space too large to memorize, forcing compression and structure
To solve any problem, you don't have to be super smart. You just have to 1) be able to break down problems into subproblems, 2) be slightly smarter than the hardest of the atomic subproblems.
The real challenge is that the process can take a very long time.
enjoyed this, but curious why you’re treating Gimbutas’s Old Europe hypothesis as data instead of hermeneutics.
aDNA nails yamnaya-scale turnovers and male-skewed migration; it does not pin down matriarchy, goddess monism, or a pacific prehistory. those are gimbutas’s affirmative readings layered over sparse proxies.
do gimbutas’s strong claims actually cohere with your world model somehow or are you smoothing for the class?
IQ130 person is obsessed with equilibria, constantly looking for the perfect schedule to maintain forever, likes a smooth economy, tidy rooms
IQ145 person has realized that cycles are lindy, usually leans into the extrema and blindly trusts the homeostasis of every system...