I find I spend a lot less time Thinking things through and more time knowing them Is this senility
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Situations that you have to overthink are growth opportunities because they expand your range of possible ways of knowing the world.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
but if it's risk aversion there has to be some potential bad outcome?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Well overthinking only happens in scenarios where there's some bad outcome you want to avoid, otherwise why bother?
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
Oh I'm in those situations a lot I think I just tend to arrive at answers quickly shooting from the hip rather than ruminating
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Replying to @eigenrobot
In which case I withdraw my accusation of risk aversion! Sounds like you're just in a different mode, and probably a quite healthy one.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
I think there's an element of . . . I used to study game and contract theory and I was pretty good at it. The process of learning was fraught. You start out with relatively simple games and concepts of "rational" play and strategy that make no sense, intuitively
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Replying to @eigenrobot @GeniesLoki
So, you're assigned many problems to solve, and if you're successful on a first pass you manage to come to a basic understanding of what the twisty concepts mean and how you might apply them
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The actual mastery comes when you've eventually done enough problems in a broad range of contexts that you no longer need to grind through pages of calculus, but can do things like invent new games on the fly to explain odd outcomes, and just /see/ solutions when new games appear
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Replying to @eigenrobot @GeniesLoki
At that point there's not too much "thinking" in a liquid sense--you've internalized the framework to the point where describing the world is intuitive and reflexive I started talking about game theory, but the same applies to economic modeling generally, and perhaps much else
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