#Crabquest: Training your System 1 to handle (parts of) cognitive work currently being done by System 2.
@GrumplessGrinch Yeah, I lean on that heavily. It's declasse in mathematics though nearly everybody does it. I blame Grothendieck.
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@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch I can see it being a problem if you just take it as read, but realistically you always verify Sys1 result with Sys2 -
@robertskmiles@GrumplessGrinch Grothendieck claimed never to use examples, and given his innovations, I can believe it. -
@robertskmiles@GrumplessGrinch Problem is, continental mathematical aristocracy decided that this was how everyone should work. -
@St_Rev You have good math intuition, maybe Grothendieck didn't. Feynman again: http://generallythinking.com/richard-feynman-on-thinking-processes-did-he-know-nothing-about-psychology-v/ … People really think differently so... -
@robertskmiles Well, brain damage/cognitive defects can lead to unusual workarounds with serendipitous benefits. -
@St_Rev Yeah. In research, neuro-variance has value. 100 identical clone researchers wouldn't progress anywhere near 100 times as fast as 1. -
@St_Rev scratch that. Meant to say "nowhere near as fast as 100 different researchers" -
@robertskmiles Well, 100 von Neumanns would progress faster than 100 randomly chosen PhDs, but I take your point. - 4 more replies
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