Thank you! That's interesting, because Psychology is a subject I'm seriously considering doing a major in, and I've heard that it's mostly outdated and needs to be supplemented with some rigorous mathematics and programming courses to be relevant, but nonetheless I enjoy learning about it's theories and more importantly study the topics that are currently investigated mostly by psychology- intelligence, cognition, memory, consciousness, emotions etc.

I'll make sure to keep in mind whatever you have said and reevaluate my decision to study psychology or neuroscience. Thought it's surprising to see that you included biology in your list of bogus subjects.

I was aware that it's not a fundamental science and not as generalizable as mathematics and physics, but isn't it because it's relatively newer in the history of science along with all the social sciences, and it'll take time for it to come up with generalizable laws, but is it okay to completely dismiss it as bogus and disregard it's validity as a fundamental science?

How about the biology researchers who come up with breakthroughs in the biological sciences that result in a greater understanding of how to cure diseases and develop clinical tools, or those who win the Nobel in physiology or medicine, or even doctors for that matter?

I'm not trying to say what you're saying is not true, I'm just curious to know what you think about it, because I wish to understand your point of view and it'll be important for what I decide to study at the undergraduate level. Even though this is a perspective I have never encountered before, I'm receptive to your ideas and welcome them with an open mind if you could just answer my questions and make me understand why you claim that biology, psychology and neuroscience are useless majors.

It's good to see that you mentioned algorithms, logic, statistics and proofs, because those are topics I'm interested in and plan to study more deeply in the near future. Signal theory is new for me, and I'll make sure to include it in my list.

I also like the idea behind what you said about them not changing for the rest of your life whatever happens.. because I've myself been trying to find generalizable principles that hold true in all of the universe for all of eternity, and reading a little philosophy of science to understand how we can design experiments that could help us establish relationships between cause and effect that would hold true under all conditions no matter what, provide us with a certainty if not equal to then as close to the certainty that we have with mathematics and logic. Is that what you're trying to hint at?

Is this also the reason you're telling me to stay away from biology? But even in this case the questions I posed earlier hold true- what about the people who are making discoveries in the biological sciences with a background in biology or neuroscience? Do you think it would be better for me to get trained in a mathematical science and then apply it to solve problems in the neurosciences?

I too have been thinking of studying a softer discipline on the side- topics like philosophy, anthropology, sociology, literature, linguistics. I'll try to look deeper into linguistics and ethics, these are subjects I already know a little about, but theology I have never tried, so I'll try to read a little about that too.

"Teaching values to mindless machines" This is actually a problem I'm trying to figure out- how to formalize rigorously logically and mathematically our values, and it looks pretty grim at the moment because these things seem to be completely out of the realm of logic, so I'm trying to do that plus at least come up with a framework to discover out true values, at least that seems more attainable.

On a similar note, I'm also trying to get involved in AI Alignment research, because it deals with the problem of getting AI aligned with our values before we develop AGI. I'll also try to learn some economics, I've already read a lot of books about behavioural economics, and that's been very insightful and interesting. I'll try to learn some finance too. Thank you.