I enthusiastically agree with you. I actually do machine learning as my day job, and its ability to store “lookup table” style mappings with generalization was exactly what I was thinking of when referring to “modeling”. I’m pleased I pointed to the right concept, and somewhat disappointed that my writing wasn’t high enough quality to clarify this from the beginning. what you mention about obsessing seems extremely true to me, and seems related to Satvik’s internationalization of it as “rapid fire simulations”.
in general I think of s1 as “fast lookup-table style reasoning” and s2 as “cpu-and-program style reasoning”. my goal here was to say:
humans have a hell of a lot of modeling power in the fast lookup style of reasoning
that style of reasoning can embed recursive modeling
a huge part of social interaction is a complicated thing that gets baked into lookup style reasoning
I enthusiastically agree with you. I actually do machine learning as my day job, and its ability to store “lookup table” style mappings with generalization was exactly what I was thinking of when referring to “modeling”. I’m pleased I pointed to the right concept, and somewhat disappointed that my writing wasn’t high enough quality to clarify this from the beginning. what you mention about obsessing seems extremely true to me, and seems related to Satvik’s internationalization of it as “rapid fire simulations”.
in general I think of s1 as “fast lookup-table style reasoning” and s2 as “cpu-and-program style reasoning”. my goal here was to say:
humans have a hell of a lot of modeling power in the fast lookup style of reasoning
that style of reasoning can embed recursive modeling
a huge part of social interaction is a complicated thing that gets baked into lookup style reasoning
^•^