Okay here's a hot take I've been mulling over. Insight is overrated while information is underrated. Do you feel like that generalizes well / resonates with you, or is it particular to my intellectual experience(s)?
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cf.
@sarahdoingthing's term "insight porn", though it's not necessarily pejorative -
hehe she's the one who came up with that?
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Keeping with the porn metaphor (since I like it): I feel like maybe the subjective sense of 'insight' is kind of, like, the orgasm that incentivizes integrating new information into your worldview. 'Insight porn' does the minimum necessary to trigger a mind-refactoring.
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Mind-refactoring is really useful, even when new information isn't involved! Lots of problems stem from knowing something but not connecting it to other knowledge in a way that improves decision-making. Just being aware of new data without integrating it will not help.
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It's been said of the Feynman lectures that they had this problem, you're prone to come out feeling enlightened but a couple days later you're no better at solving physics problems. I don't think you can blame that on him, though: you have to do the work.
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