(The following is pre-rigorous and tries to make legible some vague intuitions.)
My current toy model is that there’s a kind of cognition where you’re loading up all the constraints in working memory, and then aim your babble to fire given the constraints. But the basic “babble firepower” is really the same.
You also need the to learn to integrate new gears into your babble. For example, formulating the right maths theorems requires learning and manipulating a bunch of unfamiliar abstractions. And you need to have those abstractions be readily accessible by your babble muscle, as opposed to painstakingly loaded up with deliberate, S2 reflection.
But it still seems to that “figuring out which solutions work” is still a separate pruning step, and the babble component is largely similar?
I’m not saying the babble goes all the way, but that there’s some micro-level, elementary cognitive motion that’s the same.
fill in a blank Sudoku board. There’s a lot more than 50 ways to do it, but if you just start writing in random numbers then you’ll probably get stuck.
Interesting! I guess you also have “Send a satellite into orbit without using a rocket?”
(The following is pre-rigorous and tries to make legible some vague intuitions.)
My current toy model is that there’s a kind of cognition where you’re loading up all the constraints in working memory, and then aim your babble to fire given the constraints. But the basic “babble firepower” is really the same.
You also need the to learn to integrate new gears into your babble. For example, formulating the right maths theorems requires learning and manipulating a bunch of unfamiliar abstractions. And you need to have those abstractions be readily accessible by your babble muscle, as opposed to painstakingly loaded up with deliberate, S2 reflection.
But it still seems to that “figuring out which solutions work” is still a separate pruning step, and the babble component is largely similar?
I’m not saying the babble goes all the way, but that there’s some micro-level, elementary cognitive motion that’s the same.
Interesting! I guess you also have “Send a satellite into orbit without using a rocket?”