Cool post. I like the intuition of hiding complexity. Indeed, when I think of a low complexity description for what I got from my 1-hour of thinking very hard, the most natural answer is “a decomposition into subproblems and judgement about their solutions”.
In other words, Factored Cognition primarily asks you to do something that you want to do anyway when learning about a subject. I’ve found that better understanding the relationship between the two has changed my thinking about both of them.
Would it be then representative of your view to say that a question can be solved through Factored Cognition iff the relevant topic can be learned by a human?
Would it be then representative of your view to say that a question can be solved through Factored Cognition iff the relevant topic can be learned by a human?
Unfortunately, no. It’s more like ‘FC is inferior to one person learning insofar as decompositions lead to overhead’. And in practice, decompositions can have large overhead. You often don’t know how to decompose a topic well until you already thought about it a lot.
Cool post. I like the intuition of hiding complexity. Indeed, when I think of a low complexity description for what I got from my 1-hour of thinking very hard, the most natural answer is “a decomposition into subproblems and judgement about their solutions”.
Would it be then representative of your view to say that a question can be solved through Factored Cognition iff the relevant topic can be learned by a human?
Unfortunately, no. It’s more like ‘FC is inferior to one person learning insofar as decompositions lead to overhead’. And in practice, decompositions can have large overhead. You often don’t know how to decompose a topic well until you already thought about it a lot.