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A bit verbose re: type hierarchies, compositionality, head rules, etc.. But I suppose programmers are not really the intended audience.

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Five stars so far. The elephant-and-its-rider metaphor is especially useful and insightful.. waiting for Haidt to link this with Systems I/II.

Interesting to see how context-free grammars are introduced outside of a CS context. Authors do so incrementally so as not to scare any reader.. well done!

Things get exciting in the "Conditioning" chapter. Really clean way to do inference (and it's Lispy, too!)

Skimming over the math.. still interesting

… But if one gets to be too complacent, feeling that psychic energy invested in new directions is wasted unless there is a good chance of reaping extrinsic rewards for it, one may end up no longer enjoying life, and pleasure becomes the only source of positive experience."

"Unfortunately, this natural connection between growth and enjoyment tends to disappear with time. Perhaps because 'learning' becomes an external imposition when schooling starts, the excitement of mastering new skills gradually wears out. It becomes all too easy to settle down within the narrow boundaries of the self developed in adolescence.