Some good resources on Game Theory;

1) Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction by Morton Davis.

2) Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction by Colin Camerer.

Philosophy - To understand oneself in the grand scheme of things. Models/Frameworks and not dogma.

Psychology - Mind _is_ Everything. Psychology is just applied philosophy and teaches one to understand/modulate our mind according to a worldview.

Logic/Maths/Science/Engineering/Technology - To understand the objective world and earn a livelihood.

Humanities/Art - What makes us Human. May/May-not earn a livelihood.

Worldly Wisdom - How to adjust to people/society to get what you want.

AI/Programming/etc. - Tools to be used in aid of the above but not an end in themselves.

This is the correct base from which all plans for "retirement" should start from.

1) Eliminate/Simplify/Lower all your "wants". You will be surprised as to how much you can save.

2) Focus only on your "needs" for existence i.e. what you actually need to live when you are 70.

3) Modify your lifestyle immediately; specifically Diet and Health in the light of the above two goals viz. proper work/life balance, proper diet, proper sleep, proper exercise. Health _is_ Wealth when it comes to old age since much of your retirement money will go to healthcare when you are older. Control/Plan-for/Manage this now.

4) Get your entire family to understand and buy-into the above.

Everything else is gravy.

> The first 20 confusing hours are where most people bounce: you can’t even formulate a useful question for a human, you don’t know the right terms, and you feel dumb.

> argument is about how people use the tool, not what the tool is.

> The deep understanding still comes from struggle, debugging, building mental models. An LLM can either be a summarization crutch or a Socratic tutor that keeps pushing you one step past where you are, depending on how you interact with it.

> But historically we’ve underestimated how much of the "road" was actually just gate friction: social anxiety, jargon, bad docs, hostile forums.

Very well said.

Well said; and i think you are right.

How did you come to develop this sort of perspective? What did you read/study that led you to this pov?

It's branched from how I think about TFR. To merge,

- the common sentiment of "child raising is too expensive"

- the reality that wealth has drastically gone up

I think: okay, it must feel expensive for some reason. Probably because the work involved, despite not changing too much in an absolute sense, is relatively much pricier compared to all modern cheap sources of happiness.

Then, this notion of the cost-of-fun is easily transferred to general socialization & the loneliness problem.

> A helpful way to learn this is to separate models, machines, and practice.

Yep, that is how i framed my question; glad to see it validated.

Thanks for the pointer to Preskill's NISQ notes.

Michael Nielsen himself! Thanks for the pointer to your gentler introduction. Though i did my B.Sc. Honours in Chemistry decades ago (before switching to CS) i might have to bone up on the requisite mathematics, which is fine.

Given your experience in this domain; i would appreciate your take on Quantum Computing hype vs. reality? There is a lot of contradictory information like for example; The Case Against Quantum Computing - https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-case-against-quantum-computing

Do you think quantum computing will ever become mainstream? Will the "common folk" be able to program and use it with the same ease with which we do classical computers by using layers of abstractions?

The Umesh Vazirani lectures look great so thanks for pointing it out.

For a sampler, just watched the qubit ones and they are excellent.

Didn't know 3blue1brown had some videos on Quantum Computing so thanks for the pointer.

Thanks for the pointers.

hershkumar pointed to Watrous' book so the notes you point to might be a good introduction to the book itself.

I didn't know of "ZX-calculus" so that goes from my unknown-unknowns to known-unknowns and so there a bunch of reading to be done there too.