The instances where they aren’t interpolators have very outsized effects on the world. People seem to forget this, I’m not sure why; maybe because it’s rare, and hard to distinguish if you’re not an expert. (And on the other hand, children do the same mental motions—they’re very much not mostly interpolators—but it’s only originary and not novel, so we discount it.) See:
In this sense, humans are also mostly interpolators.
The instances where they aren’t interpolators have very outsized effects on the world. People seem to forget this, I’m not sure why; maybe because it’s rare, and hard to distinguish if you’re not an expert. (And on the other hand, children do the same mental motions—they’re very much not mostly interpolators—but it’s only originary and not novel, so we discount it.) See:
from https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5tqFT3bcTekvico4d/do-confident-short-timelines-make-sense