Interesting interview. I find it very intriguing to hear how folks like Michael think and rank the impact of their essays and work. I also found it very engaging to follow along with your efforts to get some traction in this interview. Michael is so humble about is major accomplishments, but you did get into some interesting open-ended territories midway through and near the end. Michael’s read on AlphaGo was fascinating. I couldn’t but wonder how a human would perform on an Go board with astronomical high number sided spaces. But I guess that is besides the point. Nice to hear a good defense of the academy too. Increasingly difficult to pull off these days, but I think it is important that we still try. I can’t imagine an industry provided the space for the kind of inquiry I did during my dissertation. 😁
Thanks for the note—I was indeed hoping to get a little further into understanding his ways of thinking, but sometimes these things are just fundamentally mysterious!
Interesting interview. I find it very intriguing to hear how folks like Michael think and rank the impact of their essays and work. I also found it very engaging to follow along with your efforts to get some traction in this interview. Michael is so humble about is major accomplishments, but you did get into some interesting open-ended territories midway through and near the end. Michael’s read on AlphaGo was fascinating. I couldn’t but wonder how a human would perform on an Go board with astronomical high number sided spaces. But I guess that is besides the point. Nice to hear a good defense of the academy too. Increasingly difficult to pull off these days, but I think it is important that we still try. I can’t imagine an industry provided the space for the kind of inquiry I did during my dissertation. 😁
Thanks for the note—I was indeed hoping to get a little further into understanding his ways of thinking, but sometimes these things are just fundamentally mysterious!