Truly unreal how many times this has happened:
1. I refer to some concept informally for years
2. One day I happen to learn who originated it
3. That person is Herb Simon
…across psychology, economics, education, metascience…
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It makes perfect sense. Herb Simon is fantastic for acting under uncertainty and experiencing novelty
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"[H]e had…at his disposal…repertoires of possible actions;…checklists of things to think about before he acted; and that he had mechanisms in his mind to evoke these, and bring these to his conscious attention when the situations for decisions arose.”
Herbert Simon
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Yes, it's excellent (and triggered that response several times)
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"Satisficing".
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It's almost like someone ( ?) should publish an affordable and beautiful Collected Works of Herbert Simon. As far as I know, no such thing exists.
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If today is the first time I herd of him
What would you recommend to read or watch?
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Sciences of the Artificial