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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark 8 Jan \ parent \ on: Neuronal Connectomes in Vitro & Computer Emulation (brain in dish & computers) science
I'm a high school educated truck driver, so like if one of the tasks is "don't forget to pick up milk on the way home" I totally got your back.
I'm not, however, going to guarantee that I get the correct fat% milk... I'll leave the fancy math to you college kids.
Too many people give up on learning too early in life. I only know what I know not because I thought it'd be good for some career trajectory, but because I actually enjoyed what I was learning about in part from being enamored with the possibilities of the magic I could cast with my knowledge.
I'll put it this way, too many people don't have hobbies. Don't think about "working on solving immortality" think about a part of that problem that could be useful and make it your hobby to play around with little projects that are useful for learning that needed skill.
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I'm not college educated. I agree school kills genuine intellectual curiosity. A complete kill joy.
My computer experience comes a lot from books I got from a library while I was in elementary, the built in help menu in the windows command line and later in life from job experience and then again hobbyist interest learning Linux.
My knowledge of neurons is from YouTube, a few academic papers I found online and a biohacker dedicated to open science (The Thought Emporium).
When I read some boring academic paper, the fun I get out of it is from daydreaming up magical future possibilities.
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