Promoted to curated: I particularly liked how this post responded to and integrated a lot of the ideas in Kaj’s review (and broader sequence). I’ve also just gotten a good amount of mileage out of the “mental mountains” phrase, which has replaced a lot of my vague gesturing at neural annealing in the past.
I expect to use this post primarily as a good reference post. The broad concept of mental mountains has been around for a while in many different guises, but it seems likely to me that this post will become the best reference for that concept, which I think is quite valuable, since it seems to show up in a lot of different cognitive models.
Promoted to curated: I particularly liked how this post responded to and integrated a lot of the ideas in Kaj’s review (and broader sequence). I’ve also just gotten a good amount of mileage out of the “mental mountains” phrase, which has replaced a lot of my vague gesturing at neural annealing in the past.
I expect to use this post primarily as a good reference post. The broad concept of mental mountains has been around for a while in many different guises, but it seems likely to me that this post will become the best reference for that concept, which I think is quite valuable, since it seems to show up in a lot of different cognitive models.