I had a lot of fun chatting with Grant Sanderson (who runs the excellent 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel) about:

- Whether advanced math requires AGI
- What careers should mathematically talented students pursue
- Why Grant plans on doing a stint as a high school teacher
- Tips for self teaching
- Does Godel’s incompleteness theorem actually matter
- Why are good explanations so hard to find?
- And much more

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grant-sanderson-3blue1brown-past-present-future-of/id1516093381?i=1000631087010
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0u05TKwP8pozY4ojY4e0fH?si=SfRvmI-8R4q-jBPogrpMBw
Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/grant-sanderson

3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown

Timestamps:
(0:00:00) - Does winning math competitions require AGI?
(0:08:24) - Where to allocate mathematical talent?
(0:17:34) - Grant’s miracle year
(0:26:44) - Prehistoric humans and math
(0:33:33) - Why is a lot of math so new?
(0:44:44) - Future of education
(0:56:28) - Math helped me realize I wasn’t that smart
(0:59:25) - Does Godel’s incompleteness theorem matter?
(1:05:12) - How Grant makes videos
(1:10:13) - Grant’s math exposition competition
(1:20:44) - Self teaching