I’m not quite sure if I agree that that split is valuable. A lot of the prescriptive recommendations I know try to replace parts of decision-making entirely, which is different from bias-compensation, but building from scratch is very different from adapting a currently working system. I’ll have to chew on that for a while (but feel free to put forth some implications of having such a split).
(For example, one thing I’m considering is that “limited resources” implies multiple limits to me- the decision-making system I would prescribe for myself and the one I would prescribe for an IQ 70 person are different. If I’m comfortable calling both of those “prescriptive,” do I really need another word for what I’d tell an AI to do?)
The book is focused on humans.
I’m not quite sure if I agree that that split is valuable. A lot of the prescriptive recommendations I know try to replace parts of decision-making entirely, which is different from bias-compensation, but building from scratch is very different from adapting a currently working system. I’ll have to chew on that for a while (but feel free to put forth some implications of having such a split).
(For example, one thing I’m considering is that “limited resources” implies multiple limits to me- the decision-making system I would prescribe for myself and the one I would prescribe for an IQ 70 person are different. If I’m comfortable calling both of those “prescriptive,” do I really need another word for what I’d tell an AI to do?)