#tim barrus on math probability

[timbarrus]

I am learning a lot from this book. I have no language education or training. I experience languages as blunt instruments especially when I am writing a book, and today I’m writing three. The future of language is not simply auditory. It’s highly visual. The hominid brain sees the thing, and then consults its archives as to what to call it. Much of language is code. I have written entire books containing more code than rant. Not a single book critic gets it. I have created vast underworlds for them to lose their way in and all of them fall for it. Book critics are scum. If we are to understand how languages develop, first, kill all the book critics. One of the most profound discoveries is going to be found in the transfer of information using wireless technology (there is no sound in space) that can attach itself into the cerebral cortex which can then, with help from AI, make decisions around what the probabilities are for sorting out irrelevant information. The cerebral cortex does all of this at the speed of light (which on the cosmic scale is donkey slow) and the trick will be in hive-making as people learn and evolve from imagination to yet more and more and more imagination peeking around the corner at species who communicate with others of their kind directly, cortex to cortex, where you don’t need a sound to see it in your head. All you need are the probabilities. I hate saying: Study the Math. Study the math. That is actually what the universe we live in, is.