@cottonwoodfluff I have a theory that force of will is "merely" a motor control metaphor, in that there's no actual internal resistance
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which seems to be supported by recent findings, e.g.
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The idea of exhaustible self-control, one of the most famous effects in social psychology, fails a new meta-analysis link.springer.com/article/10.100
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(all this: re your recent blog post)
it's obvious why our thinking has so many motor control metaphors, less obvious why we keep using them
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some explorative notes, I don't feel authoritative enough to make this into a post
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btw, re interpretability: maybe (probably?), usefulness of an algorithm is not particularly correlated with its description length
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if that is the case, per kolmogorov, a randomly chosen useful algorithm will usually not be compressible (=interpretable)
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it depends on the measure of usefulness (how are size, runtime, accuracy weighted?) and the problem domain (does it have deep laws?) though
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I thought about it a little more - the better an algorithm of length <= n works, the less compressible it'll be because it'll be extremely golfed to fit all sorts of tricks
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