Linus Lee, Engineer at Thrive Capital, on notational intelligence: how the ways we write ideas down shape our thinking, and how deep learning might invent entirely new notations.
00:00 Notational intelligence
01:27 What makes good notation
02:28 Abstraction
03:18 Suggestiveness and natural transformations
05:28 Graphical notation
06:27 The coordinate plane and the arrow
08:14 Programming languages as notation
09:28 Inventing new notation with deep learning
11:13 Building the toy model
13:42 The handout and training results
15:03 Invariants that make symbols meaningful
15:56 Our world vs. an alien world of ideas
16:30 Models as a simulator for anything
