Thinking About Thinking
by Indy Neogy and · updated 2mo ago
Thinking About Thinking
alex and added 2mo ago
- It is difficult to overstate the advantage of intensely thinking about things in a world coated with a film of unthinking inertia. But it is also difficult to convey.
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("JP") and added 5mo ago
from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."
sari and added 5mo ago
- If you did a lot of maths at school you are used to being given problems of the first type, and when you see a problem you want to find the analytic solution. It’s a good instinct, since analytic solutions are efficient. As long as you have the right method you can quickly reach an exact answer.
Lots of being smart is working out when you’re lookin... See morefrom Complex problems and the rush to judgement by Tom Stafford
Indy Neogy added 6mo ago
- We should all want to cultivate a thirty second mind that can absorb the essence of a problem and come up with insights based on deep fluency with how the world works. However, a different type of “thirty second mind” is far more common today. Nearly thirty years after the internet became mainstream, the majority of people in our society have almos... See more
from The Thirty Second Mind by The Rational Walk
David Pennington added 6mo ago
The detriment of going from a multi-disciplinary mindset to an attention vacuum.
Jeff Bezos in the Lex Fridman podcast:
... See moreefficiency and invention are sort of at odds, because invention, real invention, not incremental improvement, incremental improvement is so important in every endeavor, in everything you do, you have to work hard on also just making things a little bit better. But I'm talking about real invention, real lateral
sari and added 7mo ago
Beautifully Biased Brains
Quirks and discoveries about our brains, how we perceive intelligence, and why we can't seem to ever fully understand it.13 cards · by Charlie Gedeon and
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