Updated even further in the direction that our understanding of ‘intentional’ behavior is extremely confused and this confusion is why so many downstream areas have difficulty with formalisms (paradoxes, incomputable results, etc.) Sense that this is one of the key bottleneck in designing systems that generate cooperative equilibria among that system’s users. We don’t have a design language for incentive management.
Updated in the direction that there’s a bunch of path dependence baked in to what we learn is safely ignorable early on in life and this contributes to fragility of our transfer learning. Hidden parameter. This is in addition/contrast to, the ‘trauma’ story of how early childhood affects us.
Updated that ADHD significantly affects my day to day experience.
Updated my sense of how people spend their time on reviewing the top 100 most visited websites.
Updated in the direction that there is no ‘cure’ for cancer. Not in the sense that there is no cure for any specific cancer, but that cancer is a (universal?) dynamic that can occur at any level of abstraction/optimization.
I don’t think cancer is universal. I think it’s a phenomenon of a level of evolutionary maturity where mutation sometimes has to come at the expense of sustainable accounting. Life may effectively transcend it, not absolutely, it is impossible to transcend it absolutely, but well enough.
Updated even further in the direction that our understanding of ‘intentional’ behavior is extremely confused and this confusion is why so many downstream areas have difficulty with formalisms (paradoxes, incomputable results, etc.) Sense that this is one of the key bottleneck in designing systems that generate cooperative equilibria among that system’s users. We don’t have a design language for incentive management.
Updated in the direction that there’s a bunch of path dependence baked in to what we learn is safely ignorable early on in life and this contributes to fragility of our transfer learning. Hidden parameter. This is in addition/contrast to, the ‘trauma’ story of how early childhood affects us.
Updated that ADHD significantly affects my day to day experience.
Updated my sense of how people spend their time on reviewing the top 100 most visited websites.
Updated in the direction that there is no ‘cure’ for cancer. Not in the sense that there is no cure for any specific cancer, but that cancer is a (universal?) dynamic that can occur at any level of abstraction/optimization.
I don’t think cancer is universal. I think it’s a phenomenon of a level of evolutionary maturity where mutation sometimes has to come at the expense of sustainable accounting. Life may effectively transcend it, not absolutely, it is impossible to transcend it absolutely, but well enough.