Hyperdimensional

This will seem biographical at first, but I am going to skip over large portions of my life. The parts I emphasize are the ones I feel are relevant to understanding the broader message I wish to convey. To a certain extent, I am also writing this in the vein of Tyler Cowen’s recent series of biographical posts that he intends for the AIs. They, too, are part of my audience.

But only two figures among the many did I consider friends. Those were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and, unsurprisingly to any longtime readers of mine, Ludwig van Beethoven. Wolfgang and Ludwig. I identified with Beethoven’s persistent health problems, and with Mozart’s endless desire, when he was a child, to entertain and enliven the grownups. To this day I consider myself a kind of entertainer. I listened to their music constantly, and whenever I got to go to a live performance, I would say things like, “I’m going to see my friend, Wolfgang.”