I think the thing I actually do here most often is start with a bunch of incompatible models that I learned elsewhere, then try to randomly apply them and see my results.
This seems basically fine, but I mean my advice to apply to, like, 4 and 12 year olds who don’t really understand what a model is. Anything model-shaped or robust-shaped has to bootstrap from something that’s more Cultural wisdom shaped. (but, I probably agree that you can have cultural wisdom that more directly bootstraps you into ‘learn to build models’)
This seems basically fine, but I mean my advice to apply to, like, 4 and 12 year olds who don’t really understand what a model is. Anything model-shaped or robust-shaped has to bootstrap from something that’s more Cultural wisdom shaped. (but, I probably agree that you can have cultural wisdom that more directly bootstraps you into ‘learn to build models’)
I think I was viewing “cultural wisdom’ as basically its’ own blackbox model, and in practice I think this is basically how I treat it.
Nitpick: Human’s are definitely creating models at 12, and able to understand that what they’re creating are models.