In medical school, I was taught that when you’re a novice doctor, you’ll make diagnoses and plans using deliberative reasoning, but that experts eventually pattern-match everything.
If that’s true, then pattern-matching might arise naturally with experience, or it might be something that’s difficult to achieve in many domains at once.
When I read your article, the reasons that I might doubt that you deserve collaborators are:
1) that enthusiastic self-reports of special perceptual-cognitive abilities have a low prior probability
2) that you lack mechanistic explanations of things you did that led to you percieving some types of patterns more easily
Also, it seems almost like a parody that you spent 10,000+ hours learning to see patterns in evidence. Like, I thought you might in the next line say ‘gotcha, that’s describing how I learnt English as a child’! Do you mean you learnt patterns, or you learnt how to learn patterns? And if you want others to help you to teach the material, you’ll almost certainly need to start by teaching pieces of it yourself!
Putting all of this to the side, I enjoyed the post—thanks for writing it—and am interested to see what you come up with.
Thanks for the post Jonah.
In medical school, I was taught that when you’re a novice doctor, you’ll make diagnoses and plans using deliberative reasoning, but that experts eventually pattern-match everything.
If that’s true, then pattern-matching might arise naturally with experience, or it might be something that’s difficult to achieve in many domains at once.
When I read your article, the reasons that I might doubt that you deserve collaborators are:
1) that enthusiastic self-reports of special perceptual-cognitive abilities have a low prior probability 2) that you lack mechanistic explanations of things you did that led to you percieving some types of patterns more easily
Also, it seems almost like a parody that you spent 10,000+ hours learning to see patterns in evidence. Like, I thought you might in the next line say ‘gotcha, that’s describing how I learnt English as a child’! Do you mean you learnt patterns, or you learnt how to learn patterns? And if you want others to help you to teach the material, you’ll almost certainly need to start by teaching pieces of it yourself!
Putting all of this to the side, I enjoyed the post—thanks for writing it—and am interested to see what you come up with.