'You don't need books to get smart' meets Lurie's theorem 6.1.2.4
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-09
A claim that 'books are nothing special, you can become arbitrarily smart without reading' gets rebutted: higher category theory only grows because insiders can one-liner 'true by theorem 6.1.2.4' to vouch for constructions — illustrated with Jacob Lurie's Higher Topos Theory. A neat microcosm of the debate about knowledge compression and how real understanding depends on networks of argument, not isolated conclusions.
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