Thinking About Thinking
Indy Neogy and
Thinking About Thinking
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,
Nix đ ⢠carry yourself lightly
Alara and
Dragonfly Thinking
Our best chance of understanding complex issues lies in seeing them through âdragonfly eyes,â as political scientist and psychologist Philip Tetlock shows in his work on forecasting. Dragonflies have compound eyes made up of thousands of lenses and they integrate the views from these lenses to give them a range of vision of... See more
Our best chance of understanding complex issues lies in seeing them through âdragonfly eyes,â as political scientist and psychologist Philip Tetlock shows in his work on forecasting. Dragonflies have compound eyes made up of thousands of lenses and they integrate the views from these lenses to give them a range of vision of... See more
Miranda Forsyth ⢠Creative thinking | Anthea Roberts â Anthea Roberts
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 âthirty second mindâ is far more common today. Nearly thirty years after the internet became mainstream, the majority of people in our society have... See more
The Rational Walk ⢠The Thirty Second Mind
The detriment of going from a multi-disciplinary mindset to an attention vacuum.
@gordonbrander Although perhaps a 2x2 makes more sense per @kevin2kelly https://t.co/55uzti2B17
("JP") and
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.
Simon Sarrisx.comphoebe and
Falk Lieder, Ming Hsu, and Tom Griffiths showed that the ârationalâ solution to this computational constraint is to over-sample extreme outcomes. That is, you should apply something like the availability heuristic by calling those more extreme (easily accessible) outcomes to mind. The result is a biased estimate, but one that is optimal given the... See more
Jason Collins ⢠We donât have a hundred biases, we have the wrong model - Works in Progress
The model was helpfulâbut only to an extent. They found that while AI improved the output of less creative writers, it made little difference to the quality of the stories produced by writers who were already creative.
Rhiannon Williams ⢠AI can make you more creativeâbut it has limits
This is why the people who score well on intelligence tests and win lots of chess games are no happier than the people who flunk the tests and lose at chess: well-defined and poorly defined problems require completely different problem-solving skills. Life ainât chess! Nobody agrees on the rules, the pieces do whatever they want, and the board... See more