This post (alongside Duncan’s post Common Knowledge and Miasma) has been in my head since I read it. It has directed my attention to the many instances in which I can unroll a “simple” seeming judgment into multiple levels of modeling people’s metas.
Things I’d like to see:
This post doesn’t really argue much that this happens commonly. It just gives you the idea of the mechanisms, and upon reading I went “Oh shit, of course, I see this all the time.” It could be useful to see what research there is on people make these sorts of recursive mental models.
I think to really hit the point home, a few examples should be given that are complex enough that to fully unroll them drawings are needed, and yet the simple English description still is easily parse-able (“I don’t think she liked that he was being weird to everyone”)
This post (alongside Duncan’s post Common Knowledge and Miasma) has been in my head since I read it. It has directed my attention to the many instances in which I can unroll a “simple” seeming judgment into multiple levels of modeling people’s metas.
Things I’d like to see:
This post doesn’t really argue much that this happens commonly. It just gives you the idea of the mechanisms, and upon reading I went “Oh shit, of course, I see this all the time.” It could be useful to see what research there is on people make these sorts of recursive mental models.
I think to really hit the point home, a few examples should be given that are complex enough that to fully unroll them drawings are needed, and yet the simple English description still is easily parse-able (“I don’t think she liked that he was being weird to everyone”)