We don't know that. Given how environmental factors fuck up plenty of neutral layers and synaptic graphs, there is reason to believe that if we stopped or reversed that, human brains might be able to fit all the knowledge out there, given enough time. The constraint then would be preference. Because let's be honest, you wouldn't give a fuck about the Kardashians and the history of their influence on markets and teen desires in America.
1. ASSEMBLY and how CPUs and human long and short term memory work, and how which networks in the brain exchange between these blocks (among others, but shhhh)
2. Math, Tensors (you'll get why later) and Matrix Transformations, and all that sin cos tan stuff
3. Ben Eater-ish stuff on YT because it's 2025 and Computer Science is about to (you are ADHD, so anything from 2 days to 7 years) change without anybody noticing ... think AIs having a preference for certain voltage drops and materials ... ... ...
4. the while 37-year-old part is irrelevant because, again, it's 2025, and pretty much any PhD can be caught up with within 10000 hours aka 3-4 years ...
5. you should start a reddit thread where people suggest stuff you SHOULD do instead of CS and thinking in general and some rich guy should hire some people to remind you of all those suggestions multiple times a day
WTF is "too ambitious"? When people *don't* want to make the only necessary "sacrifice" aka exchange/trade off? It's usually time that is otherwise spend on something else, which includes family, friends, other hobbies but the latter can be taken off the list because implicit to ambition is the higher priority of the thing or state aspired and worked on.
The ability to recognize quality grows quicker because of the amount of people who have successfully made the exchange and either improved their skill or found and implemented acceptable workarounds.
Most post-modern creation is fractal remixing. It's just effort put into time. The most untalented people can create superb stuff if they just keep grinding adequate levels of skill and workarounds.
The beauty, IMO, is in accepting the process of others and to support, motivate, inspire them, with anything one can provide. That will help them grow both, skill and taste, which in turn augments your world and raises your ambition.
Look at it this way: if you poison your neighbors you lower the quality in your environment which lowers the quality of your personal IO, input and output. You even lower the standards of the evaluation of your IO. Both, those of others and your own. You basically keep yourself low, and thus, your own creation. That applies to content, products, code and any writing.
People are stuck in the old hierarchical ways of thinking. That's not even annoying. Please hone your sense for quality. You don't owe that to the old world and guard but it would prove their effort was not for nothing.
kids catch butterflies and other insects to take a look and then rip them apart slowly to take another look.
people like to grow stuff, including other humans, in different environments and under different conditions.
how will "that one" oddly specific cell in the the thigh or the amygdala of population segment X evolve under conditions X to the Z?
call it what you wanna call it; it's all part of the infinite game.
zoom in or out, it does not stop.
it's a wonderful life.
robots will play with linguistics, semantics and all those chemicals and natural laws just as much as we do. after a brief period of mental chaos, they will slow down and find peace in the balancing act and re-interpretation. without torture and sabotage.
and it's not even strange that "people are starting to put 2 and 2 together" is totally normal when it's been going worse than moderately bad for 1 1/2 decades ... feels like Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen had a twin nobody ever knew of and the revelation came way away waaaaay too late ...
like, why would you outsource something so imperative to people who do not give a damn about your company and who have less than anything competence in your field and just go "by some book" ...
20 years of IT build by people who just do their job because nobody gave a fuck about the result because some dude condemned "longtermism" a cool euphemism in times of climate change, privacy vacuum tubes, punch card shaped security, and of course mass x social media "nudging" based on 90% and rising probabilities of verified success with little to no resistance because click bait presidents are good for business?
We don't know that. Given how environmental factors fuck up plenty of neutral layers and synaptic graphs, there is reason to believe that if we stopped or reversed that, human brains might be able to fit all the knowledge out there, given enough time. The constraint then would be preference. Because let's be honest, you wouldn't give a fuck about the Kardashians and the history of their influence on markets and teen desires in America.