Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
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Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
can I predict what their reaction will be to what I say? why would a reasonable person disagree with my position? if I am so smart, and they are so dumb, why can’t I use my intellect to understand what they’re stuck on and convince them?
Defender's Corner • Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
questions to test if you actually understand something (in this case political positions - can be extended to topics beyond this)
I started to realize that there was ALWAYS a reason why people were acting in ways that were confusing to me. When they did something “confusing”, it was because I had a specific mental model of what their incentives/desires are, and I never updated that model when I got new information .
Defender's Corner • Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
People were my new puzzle. Every time someone said something that I thought was crazy/irrational, I got excited: it was a new clue about a world view I can’t (yet) predict!
Defender's Corner • Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
What a mindset!