I really enjoyed how you connected all these ideas.
I also feel like there’s a parallel to be made between:
Learning to navigate in an irregular environment vs. using a GPS
Learning critical thinking through exposition to lots of different ideas vs. being recommended content through ML algorithms
In that analogy, the street orientation diagrams from old cities would be like nuanced thought, while those from grid-like cities would be more polarized.
No I think it does—almost like free-range foraging vs. being spoon-fed information (wild animal vs. domesticated) - in the former you learn how to quickly discriminate between good/useful food and bad and develop a kind of intuition for how to efficiently find the good stuff whereas in the latter you do not.
I really enjoyed how you connected all these ideas.
I also feel like there’s a parallel to be made between:
Learning to navigate in an irregular environment vs. using a GPS
Learning critical thinking through exposition to lots of different ideas vs. being recommended content through ML algorithms
In that analogy, the street orientation diagrams from old cities would be like nuanced thought, while those from grid-like cities would be more polarized.
I don’t know if that makes sense…
No I think it does—almost like free-range foraging vs. being spoon-fed information (wild animal vs. domesticated) - in the former you learn how to quickly discriminate between good/useful food and bad and develop a kind of intuition for how to efficiently find the good stuff whereas in the latter you do not.