Outstanding post and clearly written. I’d like to see more posts of this nature on here. The results definitely seem to make sense, and seem pleasing to my intuition, but I feel kind of skeptical about such a simplified account of the cognitive process. I suppose you have to start somewhere though, and I’m not really at all familiar with this kind of science.
From personal experience, encountering a lot of excellent mathematicians in University, I have often felt that some of the best mathematicians are people who simply have the best computational resources. In other words, they have the best memory, fastest sense of reasoning, etc. etc. But remarkably, these people of course are not somehow complete “intelligence trumps” that can out argue you or outsmart you on any topic. It gives a distinct impression of a situation similar to the one posed in this article, where optimized decision making relies perhaps equally on a both power, as well as algorithmic efficiency, or insight.
At the risk of sounding redundant or pedantic, I’m wondering why did you come across this paper in particular?
Outstanding post and clearly written. I’d like to see more posts of this nature on here. The results definitely seem to make sense, and seem pleasing to my intuition, but I feel kind of skeptical about such a simplified account of the cognitive process. I suppose you have to start somewhere though, and I’m not really at all familiar with this kind of science.
From personal experience, encountering a lot of excellent mathematicians in University, I have often felt that some of the best mathematicians are people who simply have the best computational resources. In other words, they have the best memory, fastest sense of reasoning, etc. etc. But remarkably, these people of course are not somehow complete “intelligence trumps” that can out argue you or outsmart you on any topic. It gives a distinct impression of a situation similar to the one posed in this article, where optimized decision making relies perhaps equally on a both power, as well as algorithmic efficiency, or insight.
At the risk of sounding redundant or pedantic, I’m wondering why did you come across this paper in particular?
We had a university course on heuristics and biases a while back. This article was among the required reading.
(Unfortunately I couldn’t make the time to complete that course back then, so I’m only now reading the articles.)