#Crabquest: Training your System 1 to handle (parts of) cognitive work currently being done by System 2.
@robertskmiles Well, brain damage/cognitive defects can lead to unusual workarounds with serendipitous benefits.
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@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. -
@robertskmiles In fact 1 von Neumann would and did. -
@robertskmiles Fat-tailed productivity distribution makes the data hard to analyze. -
@St_Rev Yeah, not a deep point, just that thinking differently from other researchers is valuable even if the diff way isn't actually better -
@robertskmiles Yeah. I think I'd have a decent career right now if I'd found a collaborator with complementary talents.
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