rumination persists partly bcs ruminators hold positive beliefs about it ("this lets me be more prepared") so there's an epistemic distortion that reinforces the rumination beyond just the emotionally protective mechanism. this is true of many dysfunctional/obstructive behaviors

many early childhood adaptations/behavioral loops that end up obstructive in adulthood are directly downstream of overfit epistemics and/or carried over ontological distortions but bcs ontology is pre-verbal & the very frame that colors your experience, you cannot observe it directly & have to seek it in the cracks

some of you may know that I lost my Dad to cancer when I was 7yo when doing attachment repair exercises, where you are supposed to imagine a Perfect Attachment Figure, I usually go with God and my Dad

besides the cancer analogy, Tao's Math 2.0 slides are quite clear-headed & illustrate a path forward Math 1.0 operated under the assumption of "proof scarcity", and most institutions and incentives were designed around this Math 2.0, under proof abundance, has to expand the research frontier & decenter problem solving in favor of deeper human understanding, experimentation, and new principles and syntheses of research. "The primary bottleneck to achieving “Math 2.0” is not technology, or even institutional culture. It is imagination."

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