A corollary of Chapman’s ‘if something seems hard the representation is probably wrong’: if your working memory is overloaded, try changing what you pay attention to. In this particular case, paying attention to each monster on the screen in down well might be expensive compared to paying attention to the properties of open/safe spaces or paths. This figure ground inversion is also the point of bullet hells.
Strongly agree with the description of how transfer might actually work (relative to the Latin->math magical thinking). It’s especially funny because It’s a self referential error, the person who glosses over just how that’s supposed to work is also the person who will gloss over the things that make transfer learning work.
I also think there’s something really weird going on in terms of development psychology where kids are much better at transfer and then it gets broken by our education model or something. I definitely felt like noticing started being penalized at some point and most of the adults were in on it. It occurs to me that in addition to the concept of a ‘summon sapience’ spell, it’s also useful (but harder) to notice the ‘banish sapience’ spell.
A corollary of Chapman’s ‘if something seems hard the representation is probably wrong’: if your working memory is overloaded, try changing what you pay attention to. In this particular case, paying attention to each monster on the screen in down well might be expensive compared to paying attention to the properties of open/safe spaces or paths. This figure ground inversion is also the point of bullet hells.
Strongly agree with the description of how transfer might actually work (relative to the Latin->math magical thinking). It’s especially funny because It’s a self referential error, the person who glosses over just how that’s supposed to work is also the person who will gloss over the things that make transfer learning work.
I also think there’s something really weird going on in terms of development psychology where kids are much better at transfer and then it gets broken by our education model or something. I definitely felt like noticing started being penalized at some point and most of the adults were in on it. It occurs to me that in addition to the concept of a ‘summon sapience’ spell, it’s also useful (but harder) to notice the ‘banish sapience’ spell.