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I feel like if you set out to make mathematics intuitive and approximate, and you end up getting into the details of optimized algorithms for precisely calculating billions of digits of pi, without even attempting to explain why those algorithms converge on pi, you have completely lost the plot. Ironically, that was the part that most interested me so far.

> Pain has been conceptualized as always a malign experience that should be reduced or eliminated. Yet... pain is essential... Without pain, as anyone with congenital analgesia will attest, we are at enormous risk. Pain... [causes] us to protect injured parts... In this most fundamental sense... pain is an unmitigated good.

This is pure, philosophically unsound copium, and factually incorrect (look up Jo Cameron)