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Solving problems from first principles end to end can still feel unsatisfying because people cannot hold all the relevant understanding in their brains simultaneously, creating what the speaker calls an understanding debt.
Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026
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“But the remarkable thing is that it still feels unsatisfying. Even if we can solve problems from first principles end to end, there's a kind of understanding debt because we can't hold it all in our brains at the same time.”6:41Report a misattribution
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